However, in parts of the southern provinces of Western, Gulf, Central, Oro, and Milne Bay, the use of Tok Pisin has a shorter history and is less universal, especially among older people.īetween five and six million people use Tok Pisin to some degree, although not all speak it fluently. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in the country. The barrier of entry for future NLP works on West African Pidgin English.Tok Pisin ( English: / t ɒ k ˈ p ɪ s ɪ n/, / t ɔː k - z ɪ n/ Tok Pisin ), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. To English, and 5.18 from English to Pidgin. Model between Pidgin and English which achieves BLEU scores of 7.93 from Pidgin Thirdly, the training of an Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Will be helpful in the performance of various downstream tasks between EnglishĪnd Pidgin.

Secondly, the training of the firstĮver cross-lingual embedding between Pidgin and English. Sentences, which is the largest we know of. First, the provision of a Pidgin corpus of over 56000 In this work, we perform theįirst NLP work on the most popular variant of the language, providing three Language processing (NLP) work on this language. Unifies them all - West African Pidgin English. Despite the obviousĭiversity among people who speak these languages, one language significantly

Download a PDF of the paper titled PidginUNMT: Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation from West African Pidgin to English, by Kelechi Ogueji and Orevaoghene Ahia Download PDF Abstract: Over 800 languages are spoken across West Africa.

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