List of useful resources (dictionaries, corpora, papers, models, etc.) to work on NLP for french-based Caribbean creoles and similar creole languages

Open source annotated corpora.

• Tatoeba [link]

  2 123 sentences in Guadeloupean creole with translations for some (English, French).

• Kréyolad [link]

  All contributions of Jude Duranty to the newspaper Antilla from 2004 to 2023

• CREOLORAL [link] (Not open source)

  Anne Zribi-Hertz, Emmanuel Schang, Herby Glaude

  2012

  3 hours of oral data, spontaneously spoken MQ & GP creole, with transcriptions and french translations. Not open source but is (partially ?) available here (with no annotations ?) [link, 19 audio records]

• Pawolotek [link]

  Simone Lagrand, "Titak - Panorama sonore du parler martiniquais"

  2022

  45 short audio files in Martinican creole (a few seconds/minutes long) recorded in Martinique.

Tracking unreleased corpora.

• Data for Noun Phrases in mixed Martinican Creole and French: Evidence for an Underspecified Language Model

  Christelle Lengrai, Juliette Moustin, Pascal Vaillant

  Data recorded on radio broadcasts in Martinique in 2005-2006. Transcribed and annotated.

  2016

• Data for How to Parse a Creole: When Martinican Creole Meets French

  Martinican creole tree bank: 240 fully annotated sentences. Not publicly available.

  2022

• Guadeloupean Creole Language Identification Tool [link]

  2020, William Soto

• CreoleM2M [link]

  2023, Raj Dabre

  Multilingual translation model built with HuggingFace. Support for 26 creoles including Saint Lucian, Seychellois, Mauritian, Haitian creoles. Online playground available here.

• ASR + Query-by-Example [link]

  2022, Cécile Macaire et al

  Guadeloupean and Mauritian creole. Goal: design linguistic tools for language documentation

• Case Study on Data Collection of Kreol Morisien, a Low-Resourced Creole Language [link]

  David Joshen Bastien, Vijay Prakash Chumroo, Johan Patrice Bastien

  2022, IST-Africa Conference

• MorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation [paper, dataset]

  Raj Dabre, Aneerav Sukhoo

  2022

• Krik: First Steps into Crowdsourcing POS tags for Kréyòl Gwadloupéyen [link]

  Alice Millour, Karën Fort

  2018

• JamPatoisNLI: A Jamaican Patois Natural Language Inference Dataset [link]

  Ruth-Ann Armstrong, John Hewitt, Christopher Manning

  2022

• Language Identification of Guadeloupean Creole [paper, code]

  William Soto

  2020

• Krik: First Steps into Crowdsourcing POS tags for Kréyòl Gwadloupéyen [link]

  Alice Millour, Karën Fort

  2018

• How to Parse a Creole: When Martinican Creole Meets French [link]

  Ludovic Mompelat, Daniel Dakota, Sandra Kübler

  2022

• Kreol Morisien to English and English to Kreol Morisien Translation System using Attention and Transformer Model [link]

  Zaheenah Boodeea, Sameerchand Pudaruth

  2020

• Automatic Speech Recognition and Query By Example for Creole Languages Documentation [link, code]

  Cécile Macaire, Didier Schwab, Benjamin Lecouteux, Emmanuel Schang

  2022

  Guadeloupean & Mauritian Creoles

• On Language Models for Creoles [link]

  Heather Lent, Emanuele Bugliarello, Miryam de Lhoneux, Chen Qiu, Anders Søgaar

  2021, Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

• What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs [link]

  Heather Lent, Kelechi Ogueji, Miryam de Lhoneux, Orevaoghene Ahia, Anders Søgaard

  2022

• Ancestor-to-Creole Transfer is Not a Walk in the Park [link]

  Heather Lent, Emanuele Bugliarello, Anders Søgaard

  2022

• African Substrates Rather Than European Lexifiers to Augment African-diaspora Creole Translation [link]

  Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Matthew Dean Stutzman, Stephen D. Richardson, David R Mortensen

  2023

• Une grammaire formelle du créole martiniquais pour la génération automatique [link]

  Pascal Vaillant

  2003