MudawanSn
An open parallel corpus designed for the Wolof–Modern Standard Arabic language pair. It contains 1,271 human-translated, sentence-aligned gold-standard sentence pairs, released under a CC BY-NC license and hosted on Hugging Face and GitHub.
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MudawanSn is the first parallel corpus designed specifically for the Wolof–Modern Standard Arabic language pair; no publicly available corpus had previously targeted this language pair.
MudawanSn provides 1,271 sentence-aligned gold-standard parallel pairs, all human-translated from Wolof into Modern Standard Arabic.
MudawanSn's source texts are drawn from the MasakhaNER corpus, covering topics including politics, society, religion, and sports in Senegalese news discourse.
The research team benchmarked four machine translation systems across three architectural families: NLLB-200 (600M parameters), mT5-base, and two AfriNLLB variants.
Fine-tuning on MudawanSn yields significant improvements in both translation directions, with the AfriNLLB variants optimized for African languages outperforming the general-purpose NLLB-200 and mT5.
MudawanSn is released under the CC BY-NC license and has been publicly hosted on Hugging Face and GitHub.
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MudawanSn is the first parallel corpus designed specifically for the Wolof–Modern Standard Arabic language pair; no publicly available corpus had previously targeted this language pair.
50%UnverifiedMudawanSn provides 1,271 sentence-aligned gold-standard parallel pairs, all human-translated from Wolof into Modern Standard Arabic.
50%UnverifiedMudawanSn's source texts are drawn from the MasakhaNER corpus, covering topics including politics, society, religion, and sports in Senegalese news discourse.
50%UnverifiedThe research team benchmarked four machine translation systems across three architectural families: NLLB-200 (600M parameters), mT5-base, and two AfriNLLB variants.
50%UnverifiedFine-tuning on MudawanSn yields significant improvements in both translation directions, with the AfriNLLB variants optimized for African languages outperforming the general-purpose NLLB-200 and mT5.
50%UnverifiedMudawanSn is released under the CC BY-NC license and has been publicly hosted on Hugging Face and GitHub.
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