Research Article
SenTekki: Online Platform and Restful Web Service for Translation Between Wolof and French
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-031-23116-2_25, author={Alla Lo and Elhadji Mamadou Nguer and Sileye O. Ba and Cheikh M. Bamba Dione and Moussa Lo}, title={SenTekki: Online Platform and Restful Web Service for Translation Between Wolof and French}, proceedings={Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. 5th EAI International Conference, InterSol 2022, Abuja, Nigeria, March 23-24, 2022, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={INTERSOL}, year={2023}, month={2}, keywords={Neural machine translation platform Neural machine translation web service Low resource language Wolof}, doi={10.1007/978-3-031-23116-2_25} }- Alla Lo
Elhadji Mamadou Nguer
Sileye O. Ba
Cheikh M. Bamba Dione
Moussa Lo
Year: 2023
SenTekki: Online Platform and Restful Web Service for Translation Between Wolof and French
INTERSOL
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23116-2_25
Abstract
In this article, we propose a machine translation Web Service and Platform for Wolof, a low-resource Niger-Congolese language. We first developed a Transformer model, and different configurations adapted to these models to translate between Wolof and French. We trained the model on a very limited amount of French-Wolof parallel data of approximately 85,000 parallel sentences. The best model was able to achieve a good performance of around 28 BLUE score. We then developed a web platform that allows text to be translated between French and Wolof, but also a RestFull Web Service that will allow other applications to benefit from the translation service.
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