jannesg/takalane_zul_roberta

The Takalani Sesame project aims to promote the use of South African languages in NLP . It aims to look at techniques for low-resource languages to equalise performance with larger languages around the world . The project is named after the South African version of Sesame Street . It is based on the language used by Jannes Germishuys in his NLP toolkit . The language is Zulu, a South African language that is similar to English . The results are based on data collected from Wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/en . There are no pre-processions or pre-processing. The project has been described as 'takal,