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SenTekki: Online Platform and Restful Web Service for Translation Between Wolof and French

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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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Authors thank the CEA MITIC of Universite Gaston Berger in Senegal for partly funding this work.

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Lo, A., Nguer, E.M., Ba, S.O., Dione, C.M.B., Lo, M. (2022). SenTekki: Online Platform and Restful Web Service for Translation Between Wolof and French. In: Mambo, A.D., Gueye, A., Bassioni, G. (eds) Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. InterSol 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 449. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23116-2_25

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