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African Storybook Project

The African Storybook (ASb) is a multilingual literacy initiative that works with educators and children to publish openly licensed picture storybooks for early reading in the languages of Africa. An initiative of Saide, the ASb has an interactive website that enab...

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AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages

Language identification (LID) is a crucial precursor for NLP, especially for mining web data. Problematically, most of the world's 7000+ languages today are not covered by LID technologies. We address this pressing issue for Africa by introducing AfroLID, a neural ...

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AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages

AfroLID is a powerful neural toolkit for African languages identification which covers 517 African languages....

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Evaluation of Virtual Keyboards for West-African Languages

West African languages are written with alphabets that comprize non classical Latin characters. It is possible to design virtual keyboards which allow the writing of such special characters with a combination of keys. During the last decade, many different virtual ...

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Gboard - the Google Keyboard

Gboard is a virtual keyboard app developed by Google for Android and iOS devices.

Localization for Africa

Bolingo Consult is a female-led LSP that makes localization for African Languages a seamless pro-cess. We have experience in navigating the complexities in localization for African languages. Our services range from translation, interpretation and media localizat...

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Lulla

Learn African languages such as Bambara, Baoule, Tamasheq, Swahili and other languages quickly, fun and for free. Bambara (Dioula) | Baule | Yoruba | Wolof | Tamasheq | Swahili | Peul | Zulu | Fon | Bassa | Igbo | Xhosa Learn African languages with short, fun les...

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NLLB-CLIP -- train performant multilingual image retrieval model on a budget

Today, the exponential rise of large models developed by academic and industrial institutions with the help of massive computing resources raises the question of whether someone without access to such resources can make a valuable scientific contribution. To explor...

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NLLB: No Language Left Behind

No Language Left Behind (NLLB) is a first-of-its-kind, AI breakthrough project that open-sources models capable of delivering high-quality translations directly between any pair of 200+ languages — including low-resource languages like Asturian, Luganda, Urdu and m...

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No Language Left Behind : Data

NLLB project uses data from three sources : public bitext, mined bitext and data generated using backtranslation. Details of different datasets used and open source links are provided in details here.

No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation

Driven by the goal of eradicating language barriers on a global scale, machine translation has solidified itself as a key focus of artificial intelligence research today. However, such efforts have coalesced around a small subset of languages, leaving behind the va...

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PanLex: Building a Resource for Panlingual Lexical Translation

PanLex, a project of The Long Now Foundation, aims to enable the translation of lexemes among all human languages in the world. By focusing on lexemic translations, rather than grammatical or corpus data, it achieves broader lexical and language coverage than relat...

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PanLex: World vocabulary listing

PanLex is a nonprofit whose mission is to overcome language barriers to human rights, information, and opportunities. We believe that nobody should have their rights restricted because of the language they speak.

SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects

Despite the progress we have recorded in the last few years in multilingual natural language processing, evaluation is typically limited to a small set of languages with available datasets which excludes a large number of low-resource languages. In this paper, we c...

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Studios Tamani-Kalangou Audio Collection

This website shares the raw audio data distributed during the IWSLT 2022: Low-resource Speech Translation Track. This audio data was web-crawled from the Kalangou and Tamani websites, with the authorization of Fondation Hirondelle. When using this data, please cite...

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