metadata
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