Ghana NLP

Initiative focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) of Ghanaian Languages, & its Applications to Local Problems Recently, there has been a realization that language technologies have been leaving certain languages behind - including most African languages. While Google Translate offers translation services in several African languages, no Ghanaian languages are included, and even for the included languages the quality has been generally found to be quite poor. Major challenges boil down to lack of good (indeed often any) training data, as well as lack of adoption of major language technologies for local problems. The problem has been receiving much attention recently, notably yielding a dedicated workshop at the upcoming ICLR in summer of 2020 in Addis Ababa. Notably, techniques for Ethiopian and other East African languages, Southern African Languages and some Nigerian languages have been explored in some depth. No work has been done on Ghanaian languages to the best of our k...