![]() ![]() The remnant of some words which are of Portuguese origin in today’s West-African pidgin English includes “sabi” (to know) and “pikin” (child). History has it that Portuguese traders were the first set of Europeans to trade in West Africa in the 15th century. ![]() The West African Pidgin English was a language of commerce between British and African slave traders during the Atlantic slave trade around the 17th and 18th centuries. It is the root of many other interesting phenomena, including the advent of pidgin and creole-a pidgin that has grown into having native speakers. Language contact is an interesting linguistic phenomenon. Pidgin, this new form, usually composed of basic elements of two or more languages, arises from language contact and can be built from words, sounds, or body language. The barrier of entry for future NLP works on West African Pidgin English.When two people with different native languages meet, and there is the need for them to communicate, they might be forced to express themselves in a thwarted form of their languages which over time can give rise to a new form of language. ![]() 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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