Machine translation for Sranantongo (Sranan, srn), a low-resource Creole language spoken predominantly in Surinam, is virgin territory. In this study we create a general purpose machine translation system for srn. In order to facilitate this research, we introduce the SRNcorpus, a collection of parallel Dutch (nl) to srn and monolingual srn data. We experiment with a wide range of proven machine translation methods. Our results demonstrate a strong baseline machine translation system for srn.
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@article{arxiv.2212.06383,
title = {Towards a general purpose machine translation system for Sranantongo},
author = {Just Zwennicker and David Stap},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06383},
year = {2022}
}