KreolMorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation

Raj Dabre, Aneerav Sukhoo


Abstract
In this paper, we describe KreolMorisienMT, a dataset for benchmarking machine translation quality of Mauritian Creole. Mauritian Creole (Kreol Morisien) is a French-based creole and a lingua franca of the Republic of Mauritius. KreolMorisienMT consists of a parallel corpus between English and Kreol Morisien, French and Kreol Morisien and a monolingual corpus for Kreol Morisien. We first give an overview of Kreol Morisien and then describe the steps taken to create the corpora. Thereafter, we benchmark Kreol Morisien ↔ English and Kreol Morisien ↔ French models leveraging pre-trained models and multilingual transfer learning. Human evaluation reveals our systems’ high translation quality.
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2022.findings-aacl.3
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022
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November
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2022
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Online only
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Yulan He, Heng Ji, Sujian Li, Yang Liu, Chua-Hui Chang
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Raj Dabre and Aneerav Sukhoo. 2022. KreolMorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022, pages 22–29, Online only. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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KreolMorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation (Dabre & Sukhoo, Findings 2022)
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