AfriScience-MT (Zero-Shot) - English to Northern Sotho: leaderboard
Zero-shot sentence-level translation of scientific summaries from English into Northern Sotho on the AfriScience-MT test split (Abdulmumin et al., 2026), whose translators coined missing scientific terms. SSA-COMET, the African-language-tuned COMET, on a 0-100 scale; higher is better.
Metric: SSA-COMET (0-100; sentence-level eng->nso on the test split; zero-shot). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 15 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.4 | 66.7 | #121 |
| 2 | GPT-4o | 62.6 | #741 |
| 3 | Gemini 1.5 Flash | 62.2 | #1671 |
| 4 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | 53 | #363 |
| 5 | Gemma 2 9B (IT) | 40.4 | #2275 |
| 6 | Tiny Aya Global | 35.9 | #6489 |
| 7 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 34 | #4277 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=afriscience-mt-zero-shot-english-to-northern-sotho · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.