metadata
language:
- wol
- eng
license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
tags:
- translation
- wolof-to-english
- opus-mt
- seq2seq
- hf-aware
- africa
- low-resource
pipeline_tag: translation
Wolof → English Translation Model (localenlp-wol-eng-0.03)
This model is a fine-tuned version of Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en for translating Wolof (wol) to English (eng). 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: 68.51 (sacreBLEU)
chrF Score: 71.54 (sacreBLEU)
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