Kreyòl-MT

📄 Paper: "Kreyòl-MT: Building Machine Translation for Latin American, Caribbean, and Colonial African Creole Languages"

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Building Machine Translation for Latin American, Caribbean, and Colonial African Creole Languages

Goal: include data for each of the following languages

African-diaspora Creole languages of the Americas 🌎

• Saint Lucian (acf)
• Bahamian Creole (bah)
• Berbice Dutch (brc)
• Belizean (bzj)
• Miskito Coast Creole (bzk)
• Garifuna (cab)
• Negerhollands (dcr)
• Ndyuka (djk)
• Guadeloupean (gcf)
• French Guianese (gcr)
• Gullah (gul)
• Creolese (gyn)
• Haitian (hat)
• San Andrés-Provencia (icr)
• Jamaican (jam)
• Louisiana (lou)
• Martinican (mart1259)
• Media Lengua (mue)
• Papiamento (pap)
• Saramaccan (srm)
• Sranan Tongo (srn)
• Vincentian Creole (svc)
• Trinidadian Creole (trf)

Creole languages of Africa 🌍

• Angolar (aoa)
• Saotomense (cri)
• Seychellois (crs)
• Annobonese (fab)
• Fanakalo (fng)
• Pichi (fpe)
• Ghanaian Pidgin (gpe)
• Kabuverdianu (kea)
• Krio (kri)
• Kituba (ktu)
• Mauritian (mfe)
• Naija (pcm)
• Guinea-Bissau Creole (pov)
• Principense (pre)
• Réunion Creole (rcf)
• Sango (sag)
• Cameroonian Pidgin (wes)

Other Creole languages 🌏

• Tok Pisin (tpi)

...with target languages 🎯

• English (eng)
• French (fra)
• Arabic (ara)
• Azerbaijani (aze)
• Cebuano (ceb)
• German (deu)
• Haitian (hat)
• Nepali (nep)
• Portuguese (por)
• Spanish (spa)
• Chinese (zho)

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Using ISO 639-3 codes

Citation

Please cite:

@article{robinson2024krey,
  title={Krey$\backslash$ol-MT: Building MT for Latin American, Caribbean and Colonial African Creole Languages},
  author={Robinson, Nathaniel R and Dabre, Raj and Shurtz, Ammon and Dent, Rasul and Onesi, Onenamiyi and Monroc, Claire Bizon and Grobol, Lo{\"\i}c and Muhammad, Hasan and Garg, Ashi and Etori, Naome A and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05376},
  year={2024}
}