As MT researchers cannot solve the problem of low-resourcedness alone, we propose participatory research as a means to involve all necessary agents required in the MT development process. We demonstrate the feasibility and scalability of participatory research with a case study on MT for African languages.
Africa has over 2000 languages. Despite this, African languages account for a small portion of available resources and publications in Natural Language Processing. This is due to multiple factors, including a lack of focus from government and …