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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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This repository contains code to reproduce Better Quality Pre-training Data and T5 Models for African Languages which appears in the 2023 conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). AfriTeVa V2 was trained on 20 languages (16 African La...

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

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Datasets are foundational to many breakthroughs in modern artificial intelligence. Many recent achievements in the space of natural language processing (NLP) can be attributed to the finetuning of pre-trained models on a diverse set of tasks that enables a large la...

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In this study, we highlight the importance of enhancing the quality of pretraining data in multilingual language models. Existing web crawls have demonstrated quality issues, particularly in the context of low-resource languages. Consequently, we introduce a new mu...

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BibleTTS is a large high-quality open Text-to-Speech dataset with up to 80 hours of single speaker, studio quality 48kHz recordings for each language. We release aligned speech and text for six languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa, with unaligned data for four ad...

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BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. The corpus contains up to 86 hours of aligned, studio quality 48kHz single speaker recordings per language, enabling the development of high-quality text-to-speec...

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CCAligned consists of parallel or comparable web-document pairs in 137 languages aligned with English. These web-document pairs were constructed by performing language identification on raw web-documents, and ensuring corresponding language codes were corresponding...

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Cross-lingual document alignment aims to identify pairs of documents in two distinct languages that are of comparable content or translations of each other. In this paper, we exploit the signals embedded in URLs to label web documents at scale with an average preci...

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This dataset consists of articles with news in Chichewa. The articles come from three large news publishers in Malawi: The Nation newspaper online version, the Malawi Broadcast Corporation, and Radio Maria. The articles presented in the dataset are full articles an...

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In most Bantu languages, an object prefix can occur on the verb. In some Bantu languages, this object prefix has a purely anaphoric function, while in others it has an additional agree- ment function. Since Bresnan & Mchombo, Chichewa (Bantu N.31 Malawi) has been c...

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We introduce FLEURS, the Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech benchmark. FLEURS is an n-way parallel speech dataset in 102 languages built on top of the machine translation FLoRes-101 benchmark, with approximately 12 hours of speech s...

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