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> Zvaita sei kuti chembere yorasika, bere rorutsa imvi? (How is it that the old woman is missing and the hyena is vomiting grey hairs?)
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> ![img](https://harmonydata.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/pexels-bigworldinalens-11307036-1024x682.jpg)
> ![img](/assets/img/pexels-bigworldinalens-11307036-1024x682.jpg)
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> Shona proverb (similar to English “there’s no smoke without fire”)
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Although English is the best-resource language for natural language processing, [multilingual NLP techniques](https://fastdatascience.com/multilingual-natural-language-processing/) are catching up even for lower-resourced languages. There exist some NLP models for Shona. I used the sentence transformer model `Davlan/xlm-roberta-base-finetuned-shona` which is a modification of ROBERTA trained on Shona texts[7]. I plugged one into Harmony and tried to match the [Shona symptom questionnaire for the detection of depression and anxiety](https://depts.washington.edu/edgh/zw/hit/web/project-resources/shona_symptom_questionnaire.pdf), which is used in Zimbabwe[6].

![img](https://harmonydata.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-from-2023-07-13-12-34-30.png)
![img](/assets/img/Screenshot-from-2023-07-13-12-34-30.png)

Above: the text of the Shona symptom questionnaire for the detection of depression and anxiety.

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My model’s output is below:

![img](https://harmonydata.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image-1-1010x1024.png)
![img](/assets/img/image-1-b.png)

Harmony and the Shona transformer model matched the question about “kufungisisa” to GHQ-12 question 1 “been able to concentrate on whatever you’re doing?” which seems approximately OK. However, I would need a Shona native speaker to validate my results.

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