Kreyòl-MT: Building MT for Latin American, Caribbean and Colonial African Creole Languages (2024.naacl-long)
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Nathaniel Robinson, Raj Dabre, Ammon Shurtz, Rasul Dent, Onenamiyi Onesi, Claire Monroc, Loïc Grobol, Hasan Muhammad, Ashi Garg, Naome Etori, Vijay Murari Tiyyala, Olanrewaju Samuel, Matthew Stutzman, Bismarck Odoom, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Stephen Richardson, Kenton Murray
| Challenge: | Creole languages are used in much of Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean . a large multilingual bitext like ours has potential to build the best yet or first ever MT models for many languages . |
| Approach: | They present the largest cumulative dataset to date for Creole language MT . they provide MT models supporting all 41 Creoles in 172 translation directions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms a genre-specific Creole MT model on its own benchmark for 23 of 34 translation directions. |
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