Using LSTM to Translate French to Senegalese Local Languages: Wolof as a Case Study

By Alla Lo, Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, Elhadji Mamadou Nguer, Silèye O. Ba, Moussa Lo. 2020

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Nowadays, internet applications are changing people’s life all over the world. Applications such as Google-Map allow people to locate themselves. Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram allow people to be connected with their friends. Amazon, Alibaba allow people to do effortless online shopping. Netflix allows people to watch video contents. For smooth interaction, these applications require an understanding of internet dominant languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, French, etc. Others languages, spoken in Africa, such as Eastern Ethiopian Amharic, Southern African Swahili, Western African Fulani or Wolof can not be used with these applications. The main reason being that compared to English, for instance, many of these languages are spoken by small sized populations.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics