# MorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02421 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.02421/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 6 Jun 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.0473/) (2014)
- [The FLORES-101 Evaluation Benchmark for Low-Resource and Multilingual Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.03193/) (2021)
- [YANMTT: Yet Another Neural Machine Translation Toolkit](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.11126/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we describe MorisienMT, a dataset for benchmarking machine translation quality of Mauritian Creole. Mauritian Creole (Morisien) is the lingua franca of the Republic of Mauritius and is a French-based creole language. MorisienMT consists of a parallel corpus between English and Morisien, French and Morisien and a monolingual corpus for Morisien. We first give an overview of Morisien and then describe the steps taken to create the corpora and, from it, the training and evaluation splits. Thereafter, we establish a variety of baseline models using the created parallel corpora as well as large French--English corpora for transfer learning. We release our datasets publicly for research purposes and hope that this spurs research for Morisien machine translation.