---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
language:
- ts
- nr
- ve
- xh
- zu
- af
- en
- st
- ss
- nso
- tn
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-classification
datasets:
- dsfsi/vukuzenzele-monolingual
metrics:
- accuracy
tags:
- lid
- Language Identification
- African Languages
---

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- **Developed by:** Thapelo Sindane, Vukosi Marivate
- **Shared by [optional]:** DSFSI
- **Model type:** BERT
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Sepedi (nso), Sesotho(sot), Setswana(tsn), Xitsonga(tso), Isindebele(nr), Tshivenda(ven), IsiXhosa(xho), IsiZulu(zul), IsiSwati(ssw), Afrikaans(af), and English(en)
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## Uses

Models must be used for language identification of the South African languages identified above

### Direct Use

LID for low-resourced languages

### Downstream Use [optional]

Language data filtering and identification

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### Out-of-Scope Use

Language detection in code-switched data.

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## Bias, Risks, and Limitations
Requires GPU to run fast

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### Recommendations

Do not use for sensitive tasks. Model at an infant stage.

## How to Get Started with the Model

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## Training Details

### Training Data

The source data used to train the model came from the paper 'Preparing Vuk...' referenced below:
* Lastrucci, R., Dzingirai, I., Rajab, J., Madodonga, A., Shingange, M., Njini, D. and Marivate, V., 2023. Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03750.

Number of sentences in datasets:
'nso': 5007,
'tsn': 4851,
'sot': 5075,
'xho': 5219,
'zul': 5103,
'nbl': 5600,
'ssw': 5210,
'ven': 5119,
'tso': 5193,
'af': 5252,
'eng': 5552
Train Test split: Train: 70% of minimum,  15% of minimum size, Dev: remaining sample


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