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iranlowo vs PuoBERTa
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Category
Developer Tools
Developer Tools
Type
NLP Library
NLP Library
Country
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇿🇦 South Africa
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open-source
Free / open-source
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, nigeria, yoruba, python, pypi
south-africa, python, setswana, roberta, language-model
Summary
A Python (PyPI iranlowo) utility library to analyse and preprocess Yoruba text: diacritic stripping/restoration via pretrained models, text normalization, character verification and corpus tools. Maintained by the Niger-Volta-LTI organization.
PuoBERTa is a RoBERTa-based masked language model purpose-built for Setswana, trained on the PuoData corpus by the Data Science for Social Impact group. It ships with example scripts for fill-mask, news classification, NER and POS tagging via HuggingFace Transformers.