2 papers
cs.CL2020
Digraph of Senegal s local languages: issues, challenges and prospects of their transliteration
Elhadji Mamadou Nguer, Diop Sokhna Bao, Yacoub Ahmed Fall +1
The local languages in Senegal, like those of West African countries in general, are written based on two alphabets: supplemented Arabic alphabet (called Ajami) and Latin alphabet.…
cs.CL2020
Using LSTM to Translate French to Senegalese Local Languages: Wolof as a Case Study
Lo Alla, Dione Cheikh Bamba, Nguer Elhadji Mamadou +2
In this paper, we propose a neural machine translation system for Wolof, a low-resource Niger-Congo language. First we gathered a parallel corpus of 70000 aligned French-Wolof sent…