ENGLISH TO SWAHILI
Author: Sackey Freshia
DATA
SAWA corpus - A parallel English-Kiswahili corpus (Guy De Pauw, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver) Link to corpus details - https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W09-0702/
JW300 - Bibilical text.
SAWA Corpus details: English words: 542.1k
Swahili words: 442.9k
English Sentences - 33.6k
Swahili sentences - 33.6k
The training data is a combination of SAWA and JW300 data. The test set was created from data derived from both corpora.
Model
Transformer model (Using JoeyNMT) Link to model:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i4Mro3_obqKs24XQfgjpcD9I5kkfxhG9?usp=sharing
Analysis
Example 1
Source: When I reminded him that the ministers of other religions could visit their people , he became enraged .
Reference: Nilipomkumbusha kwamba wahudumu wa dini nyingine wangeweza kuwatembelea watu wao , alikasirika sana .
Hypothesis: Nilipomkumbusha kwamba wahudumu wa dini nyingine wangeweza kuwatembelea watu wao , alikasirika .
Example 2
Source: Although the water disappears , the salts and the minerals are left behind .
Reference: Ingawa maji huvukizwa , chumvi na madini hubaki .
Hypothesis: Ingawa maji hutoweka , chumvi na madini huachwa nyuma .
Example 3
Source: These trends began in earnest in the 1960 ’ s with what came to be called the green revolution .
Reference: Kilimo hicho kilianza kuenea sana katika miaka ya 1960 kupitia zile zilizojulikana kama harakati za kuboresha uzalishaji .
Hypothesis: Mabadiliko hayo yalianza kwa bidii katika miaka ya 1960 na yale yaliyokuja kuitwa mapinduzi ya kijani - kibichi .
Example 4
Source: The desire to work in a more fruitful territory is often another motive ​ — and properly so .
Reference: Mara nyingi kichocheo kingine ni tamaa ya kuhubiri katika eneo lenye matokeo zaidi — nacho chafaa .
Hypothesis: Mara nyingi tamaa ya kufanya kazi katika eneo lenye matokeo ni nia nyingine — na kwa njia inayofaa .
RESULTS
- BLEU train: 34.06
- BLEU dev: 34.99
- BLEU test: 17.61