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‎Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity

Jmundo1: Created page with "==Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity== The initial ambiguity of the corpus is 2211/890 = 2.484. It is worth noting both that some of these come from overgeneration of forms, as..."

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==Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity==

The initial ambiguity of the corpus is 2211/890 = 2.484. It is worth noting both that some of these come from overgeneration of forms, as the generator still generates a fair number of incorrect forms; due to the complexity of the morphology it has been difficult to eliminate all these errors. Furthermore, some of this ambiguity is true ambiguity, which can be resolved only by pragmatic context, such as forms of certain verbs which are ambiguous between certain past and future readings.

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 "mataha is food scooped with a little half gourd"
-In the first sentence, nĩ should be noun class seven (plural), and in the second, it should be noun class five (plural), to agree with the subject. Unfortunately, there is a complication in that the analyser thinks mataha is a valid verb form for the verb tah 'fetch'[ (in fact the same verb in itahagwo 'scoop'); hence, a disambiguation rule removing verbs followed by a copula has been added in addition to the copula agreement rule.
+In the first sentence, nĩ should be noun class seven (plural), and in the second, it should be noun class five (plural), to agree with the subject. Unfortunately, there is a complication in that the analyser thinks mataha is a valid verb form for the verb tah 'fetch' (in fact the same verb in itahagwo 'scoop'); hence, a disambiguation rule removing verbs followed by a copula has been added in addition to the copula agreement rule.
 These rules will cause difficulties in cases where a verb is preceded by its object, as they will make the verb incorrectly agree in class with that object. This issue remains to be dealt with.

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 ==Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity==
-The initial ambiguity of the corpus is 2159/1017 = 2.1229.
+The initial ambiguity of the corpus is 2340/1016 = 2.3031.
 The major reason this number is so high is that numerous Kikuyu words are genuinely ambiguous, in the sense that which is meant can be determined only by context. One such verb is njĩkĩrire, meaning 'put' (first person singular), which appears to be able to be inflected for the current or remote past with the same form (although it is hard to tell from the data available).
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 ==Final Evaluation of Ambiguity==
-The final ambiguity was 2075/1017 = 2.0403, not a significant decrease from the original ambiguity; it appears that the sort of ambiguity the words were able to deal with is fairly rare (although present in the corpus). In particular it is worth noting that nĩ often appears after a word other than a noun.
+The final ambiguity was 2248/1016 = 2.2126, not a significant decrease from the original ambiguity; it appears that the sort of ambiguity the words were able to deal with is fairly rare (although present in the corpus). In particular it is worth noting that nĩ often appears after a word other than a noun.
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 ==Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity==
-The initial ambiguity of the corpus is 2032/890 = 2.2831.
+The initial ambiguity of the corpus is 2159/1017 = 2.1229.
 The major reason this number is so high is that numerous Kikuyu words are genuinely ambiguous, in the sense that which is meant can be determined only by context. One such verb is njĩkĩrire, meaning 'put' (first person singular), which appears to be able to be inflected for the current or remote past with the same form (although it is hard to tell from the data available).
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 ==Final Evaluation of Ambiguity==
-The final ambiguity was 1948/890 = 2.1888, not a significant decrease from the original ambiguity; it appears that the sort of ambiguity the words were able to deal with is fairly rare (although present in the corpus). In particular it is worth noting that nĩ often appears after a word other than a noun.
+The final ambiguity was 2075/1017 = 2.0403, not a significant decrease from the original ambiguity; it appears that the sort of ambiguity the words were able to deal with is fairly rare (although present in the corpus). In particular it is worth noting that nĩ often appears after a word other than a noun.
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 ==Final Evaluation of Ambiguity==
-The final ambiguity was 1973/890 = 2.2169, not a significant decrease from the original ambiguity; it appears that the sort of ambiguity the words were able to deal with is fairly rare (although present in the corpus). In particular it is worth noting that nĩ often appears after a word other than a noun.
+The final ambiguity was 1948/890 = 2.1888, not a significant decrease from the original ambiguity; it appears that the sort of ambiguity the words were able to deal with is fairly rare (although present in the corpus). In particular it is worth noting that nĩ often appears after a word other than a noun.
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 In prose, the rules added are as follows.
-. If a copula, verb, or associative is preceded by a noun or pronoun of a particular noun class, select the form of that copula, verb, or associative which agrees with that noun class.
+# If a copula, verb, or associative is preceded by a noun or pronoun of a particular noun class, select the form of that copula, verb, or associative which agrees with that noun class.
-. If a copula, verb, or associative is preceded by a noun or pronoun of a particular number (singular or plural), select the form of that copula, verb, or associative which agrees with that number.
+# If a copula, verb, or associative is preceded by a noun or pronoun of a particular number (singular or plural), select the form of that copula, verb, or associative which agrees with that number.
-. If a verb is followed by a copula, remove it.
+# If a verb is followed by a copula, remove it.
 The rules are able to correctly disambiguate both of the sentences given above.