Danish and English/Lexical Selection

Lexical Transfer

See our lexical transfer wiki page for details on our initial results with WER and PER on our contrastive grammar and a mini-corpus.

Examples

We have example sentences for each ambiguous word in the lexical selection directory in our danish to english corpus repo. Each ambiguous word has a file titled {word}_sentences.txt in the lex_selection directory.

Ambiguous Translation

dan → eng

• (dan) sig → (eng) themself

  (dan) sig<prn><ref><p3><un><sp><acc> → (eng) themself<prn><ref><p3><mf><sg>

• (dan) sig → (eng) themselves

  (dan) sig<prn><ref><p3><un><sp><acc> → (eng) themselves<prn><ref><p3><mf><pl>

• (dan) sig → (eng) himself

  (dan) sig<prn><ref><p3><un><sp><acc> → (eng) himself<prn><ref><p3><m><sg>

• (dan) sig → (eng) herself

  (dan) sig<prn><ref><p3><un><sp><acc> → (eng) herself<prn><ref><p3><f><sg>

• (dan) høj → (eng) high

  (dan) høj<adj><sint><pst><ut><sg><ind> → (eng) high<adj><sint>

• (dan) høj → (eng) tall

  (dan) høj<adj><sint><pst><ut><sg><ind> → (eng) tall<adj><sint>

• (dan) mand → (eng) man

  (dan) mand<n><ut><sg><ind> → (eng) man<n><sg>

• (dan) menneske → (eng) man

  (dan) menneske<n><nt><sg><ind> → (eng) man<n><sg>

• (dan) flænge → (eng) tear

  (dan) flænge<n><ut><sg><ind> → (eng) tear<n><sg>

• (dan) tåre → (eng) tear

  (dan) tåre<n><ut><sg><ind> → (eng) tear<n><sg>

eng → dan

• (eng) themself → (dan) sig

  (dan) themself<prn><ref><p3><mf><sg> → (eng) sig<prn><ref><p3><un><sp><acc>

• (eng) themselves → (dan) sig

  (dan) themselves<prn><ref><p3><mf><pl> → (eng) sig<prn><ref><p3><un><sp><acc>

• (eng) himself → (dan) sig

  (dan) himself<prn><ref><p3><m><sg> → (eng) sig<prn><ref><p3><un><sp><acc>

• (eng) herself → (dan) sig

  (dan) herself<prn><ref><p3><f><sg> → (eng) sig<prn><ref><p3><un><sp><acc>