masakhane-io/masakhane-mt

Machine Translation for Africa # Masakhane - A living collection of NLP projects for Africans, by Africans **MASAKHANE** is an research effort for NLP for African languages that is OPEN SOURCE, CONTINENT-WIDE, DISTRIBUTED and ONLINE. This GitHub repository houses the data, code, results and research for building open baseline NLP results for African languages. Website: masakhane.io ## Goals - **For Africa**: To build and facilitate a community of NLP researchers, connect and grow it, spurring and sharing further research, build helpful tools for applications in government, medicine, science and education, to enable language preservation and increase its global visibility and relevance. - **For NLP Research**: To build data sets and tools to facilitate NLP research on African languages, and to pose new research problems to enrich the NLP research landscape. - **For the global researchers community**: To discover best practices for distributed research, to be applied by other emerging research communities. ## Hall of Fame for our Contributors ## Progress - See our pre-print to be published at Findings of EMNLP 2020 here - Look at our submitted machine translation benchmarks here! Can't see your language? Please submit a benchmark! - Check out our paper to be published at AfricaNLP Workshop @ ICLR 2020 - Check out papers written by our participants here - Find our more about our current initiatives - Look at our list of community documents - Read our weekly meeting notes - Follow our publication on Medium ## How can I contribute? There are many ways to contribute to **MASAKHANE**. 1. **TRAIN A MODEL** - Contribute a trained model and related code for your language 2. **ANALYSIS** - Contribute analysis of data/models for any African languages. You do not need any technical experience for this! If you're a linguist, we can pair you up with a machine translation practitioner and you can help contribute analysis 3. **DATA** - Help build or find datasets for your language 4. **DOCUM …