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Masakhane documents translation for African languages

Artificial intelligence · Languages and participation

The Masakhane community published participatory research results on machine translation for African languages. It showed how researchers and speakers of digitally under-resourced languages can shape data, methods and evaluation, rather than only receive externally developed models.

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