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NLP for Ghanaian Languages

arXiv 2103.15475 ↗First posted 29 Mar 2021cs.CL cs.AIcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

NLP Ghana is an open-source non-profit organization aiming to advance the development and adoption of state-of-the-art NLP techniques and digital language tools to Ghanaian languages and problems. In this paper, we first present the motivation and necessity for the efforts of the organization; by introducing some popular Ghanaian languages while presenting the state of NLP in Ghana. We then present the NLP Ghana organization and outline its aims, scope of work, some of the methods employed and contributions made thus far in the NLP community in Ghana.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 1; 2022: 2; 2023: 0; 2024: 1; 2025: 0; 2026: 1.

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  1. 2022A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translationcited by 97
  2. 2022Bitext Mining Using Distilled Sentence Representations for Low-Resource Languagescited by 48
  3. 2024State of NLP in Kenya: A Surveycited by 7
  4. 2021English2Gbe: A multilingual machine translation model for {Fon/Ewe}Gbecited by 5
  5. 2026Nsanku: Evaluating Zero-Shot Translation Performance of LLMs for Ghanaian Languagescited by 0