Developing Resources for Automated Speech Processing of the African Language Naija (Nigerian Pidgin)

Brigitte Bigi (1) , Bernard Caron (2) , Oyelere S Abiola (3)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
2 LLACAN - Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique
3 University of Ibadan

The development of HLT tools inevitably involves the need for language resources. However, only a handful number of languages possesses such resources. This paper presents the development of HLT tools for the African language Naija (Nigerian Pidgin), spoken in Nigeria. Particularly, this paper is focusing on developing language resources for a tokenizer, an automatic speech system for predicting the pronunciation of the words and their segmentation. The newly created resources are integrated into SPPAS software tool and distributed under the terms of public licenses.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Brigitte Bigi, Bernard Caron, Oyelere S Abiola. Developing Resources for Automated Speech Processing of the African Language Naija (Nigerian Pidgin). 8th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Nov 2017, Poznan, Poland. pp.441-445. ⟨hal-01705707⟩