Camfranglais-LLM

[Zaker237]

Introduction

A lite Language Model that can understand our language(Camfranglais)

Description

Goal

The goal of the project is to build an (hopfully train) a language model that can understand Camfranglais so that the model can be used in the future for translations (for example into pure English or pure French).

Process

I don't have the whole process in mind but my idea is the following:

• we will start by finding a way to collect enough text in Camfranglais: for this we can make a web application open to the community where people can participate by entering text in Camfranglais with their translations in French and/or English. Oss already has an application of this style in development that we can use Hier the link to the app
• Then as soon as we have a usable amount of data, we can build to train our models.

Why This project??

• first of all because it can be fun to work on it.
• people can in fact learn a lot about ML when working on such a project.
• and we could at the end have a English/French-Camfranglais translator

Relevant Technology

For the Technology, it will mainly be Python with the following librairies:

• Pytorch/Tensorflow
• numpy/pandas
• transformers

and also some Web Technologies

Complexity

• Beginner - This project requires no or little prior knowledge of the technolog(y|ies) specified to contribute to the project
• Intermediate - The user should have some prior knowledge of the technolog(y|ies) to the point where they know how to use it, but not necessarily all the nooks and crannies of the technology
• Advanced - The project requires the user to have a good understanding of all components of the project to contribute

Required time

• Little work - A couple of days
• Medium work - A week or two
• Much work - The project will take more than a couple of weeks and serious planning is required

Categories

• Mobile app
• IoT
• Web app
• Frontend/UI
• AI/ML
• APIs/Backend
• Voice Assistant
• Developer Tooling
• Extension/Plugin/Add-On
• Design/UX
• AR/VR
• Bots
• Security
• Blockchain
• Futuristic Tech/Something Unique

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[billmetangmo]

Good fun work to do @Zaker237. I can be interested
BTW, I don't think it's necessary at least for preliminary versions (v0.x) to train a new model.

Why ? Because Camfranglais is a mix of more of french/english words then dialects ( don't know real proportion however).
Cosindering my assumption is true and as Chatgpt can easily undertand french/english mix:

and knows camfranglais but do some errors:

The easisest way should be to provide it a dictionnary like this one from valery ndongo https://docsend.com/view/avvk5ef9qpvzy5zd as a context to chatgpt like below:

THIS COULD BE A GOOD USE CASE FOR CHATGPT PLUGIN. DOES SOMEONE ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO ?

[Zaker237]

@billmetangmo That dictionnary from valery ndongo is indeed a great ressource for this project. thanks I didn't know it