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AfriTeVa V2 vs GhanaNLP ABENA
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
NLP Model
NLP Model
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇬🇭 Ghana
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open weights
Free
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, t5, text-to-text, wura-corpus
nlp, ghanaian-languages, bert, twi, akan
Summary
An improved T5 v1.1 model (428M params) pretrained on the Wura corpus covering 16 African languages, with gains on classification, translation, summarization and cross-lingual QA. Published at EMNLP 2023 by the Castorini group with African lead authors.
ABENA (A BERT Now in Akan) is a family of BERT, DistilBERT and RoBERTa language models for the Twi/Akan language covering both Asante and Akuapem dialects, released by the open-source GhanaNLP initiative. Distinct from GhanaNLP's Khaya translation product.