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---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- ss
- en
pipeline_tag: text2text-generation
tags:
- m2m100
- translation
- africanlp
- african
- siswati
---
# [ss-en] Siswati to English Translation Model based on M2M100 and The South African Gov-ZA multilingual corpus
Model created from Siswati to English aligned sentences from [The South African Gov-ZA multilingual corpus](https://github.com/dsfsi/gov-za-multilingual)
The data set contains cabinet statements from the South African government, maintained by the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS). Data was scraped from the governments website: https://www.gov.za/cabinet-statements
## Authors
- Vukosi Marivate - [@vukosi](https://twitter.com/vukosi)
- Matimba Shingange
- Richard Lastrucci
- Isheanesu Joseph Dzingirai
- Jenalea Rajab
## BibTeX entry and citation info
```
@inproceedings{lastrucci-etal-2023-preparing,
title = "Preparing the Vuk{'}uzenzele and {ZA}-gov-multilingual {S}outh {A}frican multilingual corpora",
author = "Richard Lastrucci and Isheanesu Dzingirai and Jenalea Rajab and Andani Madodonga and Matimba Shingange and Daniel Njini and Vukosi Marivate",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.3",
pages = "18--25"
}
```
[Paper - Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03750)