README.md

metadata

language: african-languages
tags:
  - african-languages
  - machine-translation
  - text
license: apache-2.0
model-index:
  - name: Masakhane Benchmark Models
    results:
      - task:
          name: Machine Translation
          type: machine-translation
        dataset:
          name: masakhane benchmarks
          args: african-languages

Interacting with the Masakhane Benchmark Models

I created this demo for very easy interaction with the benchmark models on Masakhane which were trained with JoeyNMT(my forked version).

To access the space click here.

To include your language, all you need to do is:

1. Create a folder in the format src-tgt/main for your language pair, if it does not exist.
2. Inside the main folder put the following files:
   1. model checkpoint. Rename it to best.ckpt.
   2. config.yaml file. This is the JoeyNMT config file which loads the model an pre-processing parameters.
   3. src_vocab.txt file.
   4. trg_vocab.txt file.

The space currently supports these languages:

source language	target language
English	Swahili
English	Afrikaans
English	Arabic
English	Urhobo
English	Ẹ̀dó
Efik	English
English	Hausa
English	Igbo
English	Fon
English	Twi
English	Dendi
English	Ẹ̀sán
English	Isoko
English	Kamba
English	Luo
English	Southern Ndebele
English	Tshivenda
Shona	English
Swahili	English
Yoruba	English

TO DO:

1. Include more languages from the benchmark.