| ## 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: | |
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| https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i4Mro3_obqKs24XQfgjpcD9I5kkfxhG9?usp=sharing | |
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| ## Analysis | |
| Example 1 | |
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| 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 . | |
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| Example 2 | |
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| 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 . | |
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| Example 3 | |
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| 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 . | |
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| Example 4 | |
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| 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 . | |
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| ## RESULTS | |
| - BLEU train: 34.06 | |
| - BLEU dev: 34.99 | |
| - BLEU test: 17.61 | |