AfriWOZ: Corpus for Exploiting Cross-Lingual Transferability for Generation of Dialogues in Low-Resource, African Languages. (arXiv:2204.08083v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Dialogue generation is an important NLP task fraught with many challenges.
The challenges become more daunting for low-resource African languages. To
enable the creation of dialogue agents for African languages, we contribute the
first high-quality dialogue datasets for 6 African languages: Swahili, Wolof,
Hausa, Nigerian Pidgin English, Kinyarwanda & Yor\`ub\'a. These datasets
consist of 1,500 turns each, which we translate from a portion of the English
multi-domain MultiWOZ dataset. Subsequently, we investigate & analyze the
effectiveness of modelling through transfer …

arxiv cross-lingual generation