Transformer Language Modeling for Akuapem and Asante Twi
Introduction
In our previous blog post we introduced a preliminary Twi embedding model based on fastText and visualized it using the Tensorflow Embedding Projector. As a reminder, text embeddings allow you to convert text into numbers or vectors which a computer can perform arithmetic operations on to enable it reason about human language, i.e., carry out natural language processing (NLP). A screenshot of our fastText Twi embeddings from that exercise is shown in Fig. 2.
Introduction
Natural language processing (NLP) is the subfield or Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerned with teaching computers to read, understand and act on human language. A major component in enabling this is converting text into a meaningful set of numbers that the computer can then analyze and manipulate to extract meaning and context. For the purpose of this article, we will restrict the discussion of NLP to the analysis of text.
Formally, Natural Language processing can be loosely described…
NLP Ghana
NLP Ghana is an Open Source Initiative focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) of Ghanaian Languages, & its Applications to Local Problems.
