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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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Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics: A Festschrift for Oladele Awobuluyi

The book is devoted to Professor Ọladele Awobuluyi of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. It contains forty (40) well-researched papers selected through a rigorous assessment process out of the many submitted for consideration. The papers are group...

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Learn Urhobo

Learn Urhobo is our way of keeping the Urhobo language using technology. We started this platform out of a passion and pride for Nigerian culture and history of which languages play a pivotal role. Often mainstream media tends to portray only the negative facets...

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Learning to Speak Urhobo by OBUS ZALEE

This channel by OBUS ZALEE is dedicated to teaching Urhobo. Some interesting videos are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvR603p6BVk

masakhane-wazobia-dataset

Some Nigerian Parallel Corpora: Yoroba, Igbo, Hausa, Urhobo

Niger Volta LTI: Audio Corpora Builder

Build large audio corpora in various languages → {Yorùbá, Urhobo, Ẹ̀dó, Èʋe, Ị̀gbò}

Niger Volta LTI: Neural Machine Translation for Ẹ̀dó, Ésán, Urhobo and Isoko

Neural Machine Translation for Ẹ̀dó, Ésán, Urhobo and Isoko

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.

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Research in NLP lacks geographic diversity, and the question of how NLP can be scaled to low-resourced languages has not yet been adequately solved. {`}Low-resourced{'}-ness is a complex problem going beyond data availability and reflects systemic problems in socie...

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Studies in Urhobo Culture

This unique book is the product of pioneering research carried out by scholars native to the Urhobo culture and language. Unlike many of the other major ethnic cultures in Nigeria, which were studied by Western anthropologist in the nineteenth and twentieth centuri...

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The Urhobo Language Today

This is a pioneering work on Urhobo language, and since language is not the restricted domain of only scholars of linguistics, other aspects of the language or issues that impinge on language use are also discussed in this collection of essays by a eleven experts d...

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Towards Neural Machine Translation for Edoid Languages

Many Nigerian languages have relinquished their previous prestige and purpose in modern society to English and Nigerian Pidgin. For the millions of L1 speakers of indigenous languages, there are inequalities that manifest themselves as unequal access to information...

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URH-DIGITS: Urhobo Spoken Digits

URH-DIGITS contains speech collected for the purpose of bootstrapping Urhobo ASR modeling efforts with the task of recognizing connected digit sequences. There is currently a single speakers pronouncing 150 digit sequences. The corpus was collected in an open acou...

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