POS Tagger for African Language

How we built the world-first LSTM classifier for Yemba language.

Michel Kana, Ph.D
Towards Data Science
5 min readAug 3, 2019

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In this article we implement a LSTM network for predicting the probability of the next character in a sequence, based on the characters already observed in the sequence.

We build the first ever LSTM-based classifier of words from the African language, Yemba. No frontiers can…

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