ENGLISH TO SWAHILI
Author: Sackey Freshia
DATA
SAWA corpus - A parallel English-Kiswahili corpus (Guy De Pauw, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver) Link to corpus details - https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W09-0702/
Corpus details: English words: 542.1k
Swahili words: 442.9k
English Sentences - 33.6k
Swahili sentences - 33.6k
Model
Default Masakhane transformer model (Using JoeyNMT) Link to model:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QRltbbrPCR1r5_8bDrB5KzZr3KjAxiyT
Analysis
Example 1
Source: span
Reference: shibiri
Hypothesis: kipingo
Example 2
Source: administer
Reference: amuru
Hypothesis: msimamizi
Example 3
Source: Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.
Reference: Basi Thamudi waliangamizwa kwa balaa kubwa mno.
Hypothesis: Basi walipo angamizwa kwa Haki waliangamizwa kwa adhabu ya Moto ulio dhaahiri.
Example 4
Source: You do not believe but say,
Reference: Hamjaamini, lakini semeni:
Hypothesis: Hauamini ila husema:
RESULTS
- BLEU train: 15.60
- BLEU dev: 15.00
- BLEU test: 3.60