---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- nso
- en
pipeline_tag: text2text-generation
tags:
- m2m100
- translation
- africanlp
- african
- sepedi
- northern-sotho
---

# [nso-en] Northen Sotho [Sepedi] to English Translation Model based on M2M100 and The South African Gov-ZA multilingual corpus

Model created from Northen Sotho [Sepedi] to English aligned sentences from [The South African Gov-ZA multilingual corpus](https://github.com/dsfsi/gov-za-multilingual)

The data set contains cabinet statements from the South African government, maintained by the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS). Data was scraped from the governments website: https://www.gov.za/cabinet-statements

## Authors
- Vukosi Marivate - [@vukosi](https://twitter.com/vukosi)
- Matimba Shingange
- Richard Lastrucci
- Isheanesu Joseph Dzingirai
- Jenalea Rajab

## BibTeX entry and citation info
```
@article{lastrucci2023preparing,
  title   = {Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora},
  author  = {Richard Lastrucci and Isheanesu Dzingirai and Jenalea Rajab and Andani Madodonga and Matimba Shingange and Daniel Njini and Vukosi Marivate},
  year    = {2023},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv: Arxiv-2303.03750}
}
```

[Paper - Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03750)