Our research explores how to understand sentiment in an intrasentential code mixing and switching context where there has been significant word localization.This work presents a 300 VADER lexicon compatible Nigerian Pidgin sentiment tokens and their scores and a 14,000 gold standard Nigerian Pidgin tweets and their sentiments labels. Pidgin English is the most popular language spoken in Nigeria and many parts of West Africa.It is used in daily communication and is a blend of real English. By augment- ing scarce human labelled code-changed text with ample synthetic code-reformatted text and meaning, we achieve significant improvements in sentiment scoring. In practice, while many words in Nigerian Pidgin adaptation are the same as the standard English, the full English language based sentiment analysis models are not de- signed to capture the full intent of the Nigerian pid- gin when used alone or code-mixed. The implication is that the current approach of using direct English sentiment analysis of social media text from Nigeria is sub-optimal, as it will not be able to capture the semantic variation and contextual evolution in the contemporary meaning of these words. For example, ‘ginger’ is not a plant but an expression of motivation and ’tank’ is not a container but an expression of gratitude. While Pidgin preserves many of the words in the normal English language corpus, both in spelling and pronunciation, the fundamental meaning of these words have changed significantly. Rate (WER) of 0.77% using a greedy decoder on our dataset.Abstract:Nigerian English adaptation, Pidgin, has evolved over the years through multi-language code switch- ing, code mixing and linguistic adaptation.
With baseline results, we were able to achieve a low word error The six sessions of the course covers all the key words. 4 hrs and 23 mins 118 MB This audio course is designed to help learners speak and understand the Nigerian Pidgin language with confidence. Language which were both optimized using Connectionist Temporal Classification Speak Nigerian Pidgin Like a Pro: A Complete Audio Guide English 2023 ISBN: 9781959507482. We also trained the firstĮnd-to-end speech recognition system (QuartzNet and Jasper model) on this Parallel (speech-to-text) data on Nigerian pidgin. On speech recognition and translation tasks. Under-resourced one in the field of natural language processing, particularly Has spread to diasporic communities through Nigerian immigrants in England,Ĭanada, and America, amongst others. With at least 75 million speakers along the West African coast, the language About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. Download a PDF of the paper titled Towards End-to-End Training of Automatic Speech Recognition for Nigerian Pidgin, by Daniel Ajisafe and 3 other authors Download PDF Abstract: Nigerian Pidgin remains one of the most popular languages in West Africa. It is part of a continuum of English Pidgins and Creoles spoken other West-African countries such as Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Ghana.
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