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language:
  - eng
  - wol
license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
tags:
  - translation
  - english-to-wolof
  - opus-mt
  - seq2seq
  - hf-aware
  - africa
  - low-resource
pipeline_tag: translation

English → Hausa Translation Model (localenlp-eng-wol-0.01)

This model is a fine-tuned version of Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en for translating **English (eng) to Wolof (wol) **. It was trained on 84,000 parallel sentence pairs and achieves strong performance on held-out test sets.

Developed and maintained by LocaleNLP — advancing African language technologies.


Metrics

BLEU Score: 76.12

chrF Score: 82.22

Limitations and Bias

Data Limitations: Training data of 84k sentences may not cover all Wolof dialects and domains

Bias Potential: May reflect biases present in the training data

Format Sensitivity: Performance may vary with input formatting and punctuation

Domain Adaptation: Best performance on text similar to training data

Model Card Authors

[Mgolo/LocaleNLP]

Framework Versions

Transformers 4.30.0

PyTorch 2.0.0+

Tokenizers 0.13.3