Krey\`ol-MT: Building MT for Latin American, Caribbean and Colonial African Creole Languages

arXiv:2405.05376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A majority of language technologies are tailored for a small number of high-resource languages, while relatively many low-resource languages are neglected. One such group, Creole languages, have long been marginalized in academic study, though their speakers could benefit from machine translation (MT). These languages are predominantly used in much of Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. We present the largest cumulative dataset to date for Creole language MT, including 14.5M unique Creole sentences with parallel …

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