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UBC-NLP Toucan-base

Igbo(ibo)LM / Encoder-DecoderT5T5ForConditionalGeneration
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Model Info

Language
Igbo (ibo)
Architecture
T5ForConditionalGeneration
Institution
UBC NLP
Last Updated
30 Jun 2026

Intended Use Cases

LM

License & Access

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Provenance

Fetch Timestamp
30 Jun 2026
Submitter
UBC NLP

Full Record

19 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (15/18)

iso code
ibo
Model Name
UBC-NLP Toucan-base
Where is it hosted
HuggingFace
Link
https://huggingface.co/UBC-NLP/toucan-base
Year
2023
Creator/Author(s)
UBC NLP
Paper Reference
Not stated
NLP Task
LM / Encoder-Decoder
Architecture
T5ForConditionalGenerationderivedHugging Face config: architectures / model_type
Base Model
T5
Fine-tuned?
Yes
License
Not stated
Open Access
Open
Has Model Card
Yes
SOTA Tasks
LM
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-06-30
Comment
Toucan base African language model supporting Igbo

Readiness (LRS) (4/7)

model id
ubc-nlp-toucan-base-ibo
Model Type
LLM
Training Data Sources
African text
Benchmark Used
Not stated
Benchmark Score
Not stated
Benchmark Date
Not stated
Status
Activederivedupdated within 3 years

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation74%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity
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