Eliezermga/bachelor-thesis

Bachelor's thesis. This repository contains a thesis on the development of a machine translation system for a low-resource language and a LaTeX thesis template based on the classicthesis style. # Bachelor's thesis This repository contains a thesis on the development of a machine translation system for a low-resource language and a LaTeX thesis template based on the `classicthesis` style. It is designed for a general audience to understand the structure and quickly build the final PDF from the source files. ## Project Overview This thesis focuses on the development of a Neural Machine Translation system for low-resource languages, with a particular application to the **Ruund--French** language pair. Ruund is a Bantu language spoken mainly in the DRC and Angola, which suffers from a crucial lack of digital resources. The main contributions of this project include: - The construction of **OpenRuund**, a parallel Ruund--French dataset (corpus). - The experimentation and evaluation of various pre-trained multilingual neural translation models. - The development of **LugaYetu**, an application integrating the translation model as well as a linguistic data collection system. ## What is included - `main.tex` — the main document entry point. - `classicthesis-config.tex` — template configuration and metadata. - `frontmatter/` — title pages, abstract, dedication, acknowledgments, and other front matter. - `chapters/` — chapter content files. - `bibliography/References.bib` — bibliography data. - `annexes/` — appendices. - `classicthesis.sty` — style file used by the template. ## Requirements To use this template, you need a TeX distribution installed on your computer, for example: - TeX Live (recommended on Linux) - MiKTeX (Windows) - MacTeX (macOS) You also need a LaTeX build tool such as `latexmk` and the usual LaTeX packages used by the classicthesis template. ## How to install 1. Clone the repository: ```bash git clone github.com cd memoire ``` 2. Make sure your TeX distribution is installed and up to date. 3. Install or verify the following tools are available: - `pdflatex` - `bibtex8` or `bibtex` - `latexmk` If you …