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YAD: Leveraging T5 for Improved Automatic Diacritization of Yor\`ub\'a Text

Computation and Language 2024-12-31 v1

Abstract

In this work, we present Yor\`ub\'a automatic diacritization (YAD) benchmark dataset for evaluating Yor\`ub\'a diacritization systems. In addition, we pre-train text-to-text transformer, T5 model for Yor\`ub\'a and showed that this model outperform several multilingually trained T5 models. Lastly, we showed that more data and larger models are better at diacritization for Yor\`ub\'a

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@article{arxiv.2412.20218,
  title  = {YAD: Leveraging T5 for Improved Automatic Diacritization of Yor\`ub\'a Text},
  author = {Akindele Michael Olawole and Jesujoba O. Alabi and Aderonke Busayo Sakpere and David I. Adelani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20218},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted at AfricaNLP Workshop at ICLR 2024