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Title: Dholuo On Google Translate
Post by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on July 30, 2024, 04:36:28 PM

Dholuo(Luo) is now the first Nilotic language added to the service.  Yay...

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Dholuo(Luo) sani e dhok mokwongo mar Nilotic ma omed e tijno. Ee...

Title: Re: Dholuo On Google Translate
Post by: RV Pundit on July 30, 2024, 05:55:47 PM

Nice.
They should add more Africa languages.
Let remember majority of africans are not educated

Title: Re: Dholuo On Google Translate
Post by: Nefertiti on August 03, 2024, 02:32:23 AM

I used to converse with Janet of UoN on her mother-tongue NLP projects. They were building a Kikuyu,  Luo,  etc corpora (dictionaries). It's such local research foundations Google or OpenAI use to implement translation.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanjiku-nganga-b91166b

Title: Re: Dholuo On Google Translate
Post by: Nefertiti on August 03, 2024, 11:09:08 AM

Quote from: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on July 30, 2024, 04:36:28 PM

Dholuo(Luo) is now the first Nilotic language added to the service.  Yay...

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Dholuo(Luo) sani e dhok mokwongo mar Nilotic ma omed e tijno. Ee...

I don't see Dholuo or Luo on Google Translate...

Title: Re: Dholuo On Google Translate
Post by: Nefertiti on August 03, 2024, 12:04:01 PM

I attended NeurIPS in Louisiana and the world is basically LLM-obsessed at the moment.

https://www.paperdigest.org/data/neurips-2023-full.html