How two Nigerian AI engineers built the world’s first pidgin-to-English translation model
submitted over 6 years ago by anane
submitted over 6 years ago by anane
- Orevaoghene Ahia and Kelechi Ogueji, colleagues at InstaDeep in Nigeria, developed a pidgin-to-English machine translation project that was accepted at the NeurIPS conference.
- They faced challenges in finding data for the translation but trained an Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation model to create a pidgin-English word pair catalogue from scratch.
- Their work aims to make technology more inclusive for the 75 million Nigerians who speak pidgin English and could potentially help improve sentiment analysis in digital marketing.
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