Fon French Daily Dialogues Parallel Data

We aim to collect, clean, and store corpora of Fon and French sentences for Natural Language Processing researches including Neural Machine Translation, Named Entity Recognition, etc. for Fon, a very low-resourced and endangered African native language.

Fon (also called Fongbe) is an African-indigenous language spoken mostly in Benin, Togo, and Nigeria - by about 2 million people.

As training data is crucial to the high performance of a machine learning model, the aim of this project is to compile the largest set of training corpora for the research and design of translation and NLP models involving Fon.

Through crowdsourcing, Google Form Surveys, we gathered and cleaned #25377 parallel Fon-French# all based on daily conversations.

To the crowdsourcing, creation, and cleaning of this version have contributed:

1) Name: Bonaventure DOSSOU
Affiliation: MSc Student in Data Engineering, Jacobs University
Contact: femipancrace.dossou@gmail.com

2) Name: Ricardo AHOUNVLAME
Affiliation: Student in Linguistics
Contact: tontonjars@gmail.com

3) Name: Fabroni YOCLOUNON
Affiliation: Creator of the Label IamYourClounon
Contact: iamyourclounon@gmail.com

4) Name: BeninLangues
Affiliation: BeninLangues
Contact: https://beninlangues.com/

5) Name: Chris Emezue
Affiliation: MSc Student in Mathematics in Data Science, Technical University of Munich
Contact: chris.emezue@gmail.com

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To join as a contributor, please contact us at:
  1) https://twitter.com/bonadossou
  2) https://twitter.com/ChrisEmezue
  3) https://twitter.com/edAIOfficial
Or contact Bonaventure Dossou (femipancrace.dossou@gmail.com), Chris Emezue (chris.emezue@gmail.com)
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Clavier Fongbé (WebView): https://bonaventuredossou.github.io/clavierfongbe/ (Made by Bonaventure Dossou)
Clavier Fongbé (Mobile Android Version): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fulbertodev.clavierfongbe&hl=en&gl=US (Fabroni Yoclounon, Bonventure Dossou et. al.)