Task-Oriented Dialog Systems for the Senegalese Wolof Language (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Low-resource languages such as African ones are underrepresented in large language models limiting their performance in these languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a chatbot generation engine based on the Rasa framework and a method for projecting annotations onto the Wolof language using an in-house machine translation system. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach performs similarly to the one obtained for French, which is a resource-rich language. |
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