Nuosu and Mandarin

External Resources

• Nuosu-Mandarin Machine Translation Repository
• Mandarin(zho) Transducer
• Nuosu(iii) Transducer
• iii-zho corpus repository

Additions

Disambiguation

• Added a disambiguation rule...twol rule

Structural Transfer

• Added one more sentence for each of the five rules, bringing the total to 10 sentences
• Added a rule which added an adjective-specific marker when translating to Mandarin.
• Added a rule which specified the explicit topic marker in Nuosu
• Changed the rule that specified the organization of NP and ClP phrases
• These changes brought our WER from xxxx% to xx%

Adding Stems

• Added 100 new stems

Polished RBMT System

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