Separating Grains from the Chaff: Using Data Filtering to Improve Multilingual Translation for Low-Resourced African Languages

Idris Abdulmumin, Michael Beukman, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Everlyn Chimoto, Tosin P. Adewumi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Oreen Yousuf, Sahib Singh, Tajuddeen Gwadabe. Separating Grains from the Chaff: Using Data Filtering to Improve Multilingual Translation for Low-Resourced African Languages. In Philipp Koehn, Loïc Barrault, Ondrej Bojar, Fethi Bougares, Rajen Chatterjee, Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser 0001, Markus Freitag, Yvette Graham, Roman Grundkiewicz, Paco Guzman, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno-Yepes, Tom Kocmi, André Martins, Makoto Morishita, Christof Monz, Masaaki Nagata, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves 0002, Martin Popel, Marco Turchi, Marcos Zampieri, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid), December 7-8, 2022. pages 1001-1014, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022. [doi]