Hausa → English Translation Model (localenlp-hau-eng-0.01)

This model is a fine-tuned version of Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en for translating Hausa (hau) to English (eng). It was trained on 16,000 parallel sentence pairs and achieves strong performance on held-out test sets.

Developed and maintained by LocaleNLP — advancing African language technologies.

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Metrics

BLEU Score: 49.62

chrF Score: 76.49

Limitations and Bias

Data Limitations: Training data of 15k sentences may not cover all Hausa dialects and domains

Bias Potential: May reflect biases present in the training data

Format Sensitivity: Performance may vary with input formatting and punctuation

Domain Adaptation: Best performance on text similar to training data

Model Card Authors

[Mgolo/LocaleNLP]

Framework Versions

Transformers 4.30.0

PyTorch 2.0.0+

Tokenizers 0.13.3