---
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`](https://huggingface.co/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.

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## 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