Summary of Guylingo: the Republic Of Guyana Creole Corpora, by Christopher Clarke et al.
Guylingo: The Republic of Guyana Creole Corpora
by Christopher Clarke, Roland Daynauth, Charlene Wilkinson, Hubert Devonish, Jason Mars
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers present Guylingo, a comprehensive corpus designed to advance natural language processing (NLP) research in the domain of Creolese, a widely spoken language in Guyana. The corpus aims to support NLP models for machine translation and other applications in Creole, which lacks computational resources despite being an important part of Caribbean linguistic diversity. The framework involves gathering and digitizing diverse examples, including colloquial expressions, idioms, and regional variations. The authors highlight the challenges of training and evaluating NLP models for machine translation in this low-resource language and discuss opportunities for accelerating the formal adoption of Creole languages as official languages in the Caribbean. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a comprehensive corpus to help computers understand Guyanese English-lexicon Creole, a widely spoken language. The researchers collected many examples from everyday life, like idioms and regional words. They used this data to train computer models for machine translation, which can help bridge the gap between different languages in the Caribbean. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Natural language processing » Nlp » Translation
