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mafand

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
neh
Host:
MAFAND-MT is the largest MT benchmark for African languages in the news domain, covering 21 languages. The languages covered are: - Amharic - Bambara - Ghomala - Ewe - Fon - Hausa - Igbo - Kinyarwanda - Luganda - Luo - Mossi - Nigerian-Pidgin - Chichewa - Shona - Swahili - Setswana - Twi - Wolof - Xhosa - Yoruba - Zulu The train/validation/test sets are available for 16 languages, and validation/test set for amh, kin, nya, sna, and xho For more details see aclanthology.org

Visit

huggingface.co

Tasks

machine translation

Languages

AmharicBamanankanChichewaÉwéFonGandaGhomálá’HausaIgboKinyarwanda+10

Tags

news, mafand, masakhane

Licenses

cc-by-nc-4.0

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