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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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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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CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset

A dataset of over 700 different languages providing audio, aligned text and word pronunciations. On average each language provides around 20 hours of sentence-lengthed transcriptions. Data is mined from read New Testaments from http://www.bible.is/

CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset (Paper)

This paper describes the CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset. A dataset of over 700 different languages providing audio, aligned text and word pronunciations. On average each language provides around 20 hours of sentence-lengthed transcriptions. We describe ...

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EthioMT: Parallel Corpus for Low-resource Ethiopian Languages

Recent research in natural language processing (NLP) has achieved impressive performance in tasks such as machine translation (MT), news classification, and question-answering in high-resource languages. However, the performance of MT leaves much to be desired for ...

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Folio Online & Folio Translation Consultants

Founded in 1988, the Folio Group has grown from a tiny start-up into the major-league language service provider that it is today. This is largely driven by our reputation for reliability, technical expertise, fast turnaround and meticulous accuracy. Folio is recogn...

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Mandla African language dictionary

The Mandla dictionary is an online open source crowd sourced dictionary for African languages. It features definitions, etymology, and example sentences written in the native language using both indigenous scripts and latin script, as well as parallel definitions w...

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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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Stem modification in Nuer

Nuer is a Western Nilotic language remarkably rich in non-concatenative morphology. This article provides a comprehensive description of those morphological processes in Nuer that are responsible for variations in the form of the stem. Our data shows that all stem-...

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