Collaborative construction of lexicographic and parallel datasets for African languages: first assessment (2103.16712v1)

Abstract: Faced with a considerable lack of resources in African languages to carry out work in NLP, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and artificial intelligence, the research teams of NTeALan association has set itself the objective of building open-source platforms for the collaborative construction of lexicographic data in African languages. In this article, we present our first reports after 2 years of collaborative construction of lexicographic resources useful for African NLP tools.