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# I built an open, from-scratch MT pipeline + parallel corpus for Tunisian Darija (Arabizi) early baseline, and I'm growing it into a curated community corpus [P]

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**Published:** July 5, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1uo92vz/i_built_an_open_fromscratch_mt_pipeline_parallel/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

I'm an 18-year-old independent student from Tunisia. I built and I'm leading an open, from-scratch machine-translation pipeline and parallel corpus for Tunisian Darija. Sharing it for feedback. Why: Tunisian Darija, written in Arabizi (Latin letters + numerals like 3/7/9/5 for Arabic phonemes), has almost no open NLP resources. Existing Arabic tools route it through MSA and mishandle the orthography. To the best of my knowledge there was no open parallel corpus or from-scratch baseline f

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