Western Abenaki and English/Structural Transfer

Pre-Evaluation

• WER
• PER
• Coverage

Implementation

Possessive Prefixes

We chose to implement the simple possessive prefixes of Western Abenaki. Their forms are seen below:

Person	Prefix	Suffix
1	n-	--
2	k-	--
3	w-	-a(-)
1PL (excl.)	n-	-na(-)
1PL (incl.)	k-	-na(-)
2PL	k-	-wȣ(-)
3PL	w-	-wȣ(-)

Example Sentence

• Western Abenaki: N'cape pita osagipogwad.
• English: My coffee tastes very bitter.
• Old abe-eng Output: #coffee very #taste bitter

Post-Evaluation

• WER
• PER
• Coverage