Miskito/Final project
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Overview
Over the course of the semester, we've worked on developing a rule based machine translation (RBMT) system for Miskito utilizing apertium resources. For our final project we decided to focus on our monolingual transducer and improve it as much as possible. Specifically, we directed our attention to the .lexd and .twol files to encode grammatical generalizations. We managed to implement a large range of morphological analysis for our language.
- Verb tense morphology
- Absolute Past
- Present
- Present Progressive
- Absolute Future
- Future
- Irregular Verb Morphology
- Negation in the present tense
- Possessive Noun morphology
Developed Resources
- Corpus Repo
- Miskito Keyboard
- Grammar Documentation
- Miskito Transducer
- Disambiguation wiki
- Miskito and English Wiki Page
- Miskito to English Apertium Language Pair Repo
- Contrastive Grammars wiki
- Link to the code for our morphological analyzer
We expanded our morphological analyzer's capabilities by adding in
Evaluation
To evaluate our progress, we used the metric coverage-hfst
to record our overall corpus coverage. Below is our reported results.
Initial Corpus Coverage
- Coverage: 3873 / 7569 (~0.51169242964724534285)
- Remaining unknown forms: 3696
Final Corpus Coverage
- Coverage: 5987 / 7588 (~0.78900896151818661044)
- Remaining unknown forms: 1601