MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)
Largest news-domain machine translation benchmark for African languages, covering 21 languages with English or French as source. It contains 142,909 parallel sentences in parquet with train, dev and test splits, hosted on HuggingFace. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.
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- 10 Oct 2026
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