Contains Adhola-English parallel sentences that can be used for Machine Translation.
# ADH - ENG LANGAUGE DATASET
## About
This repository contains Dhopadhola and English Sentences that can be used for Machine Translation. The text comes from several domains and was scrapped from different sources online and in print media.
I did this as part of my submission for AI4D Language Dataset Challenge Round 2. My submission was not selected but I have decided to make the data open source for anyone to use as that was my initial goal and that of the challenge.
> NLP, Machine Translation, Africa, Uganda
## Table of Contents
- About Dataset
- Repo Structure
- Contributing
- Team
- Support
- License
## About Dataset
This dataset was created to provide Dhopadhola(ADH) to English Parallel sentences to
help in availing services that require Natural Language Processing to Dhopadhola
speakers.
The dataset can be used for Machine Translation purposes. It consists of
2484 parallel (Dhopadhola and English) sentences from different domains and 3386
monolingual Dhopadhola sentences. Both Supervised and Semi-supervised MT can
utilise this dataset.
The dataset can also be used to study transfer learning in related African
languages as it is closely related to Dholuo spoken in Kenya & Tanzania, Acholi, Lango
and Alur in Uganda and other Luo languages.
Dhopadhola is a very low resourced language; it has very few resources available
publicly on the internet and even in other print media. This dataset is will help in the
availability of Dhopadhola in digital media as when the task for which it is intended
for(Machine Translation) is implemented, more resources will be translated into the
language and also the native speakers will be incentivized to use it online eg on social
media because non-speakers can get the translations.
### Dataset Composition
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## Repo Structure
This repo contains 3 main folders of interest.
### 1. Clean language data
Contains all the text combined from different source files. Datashee …