User:Cayoh1/Final project - Revision history

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‎Outline

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‎Wikipedia

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‎The Bible

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‎Evaluation

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‎Evaluation

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‎Issues

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‎Issues

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‎Issues

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‎Background

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 == Outline ==
 I have begun to create a '''very preliminary, basic''' transducer for Yoruba, my native Nigerian Language. I have used what we've learned in class to build morphological analysis capabilities for my transducer.
-* I added noun, verb, pronoun, adjectives, and interjections to the <code>lexd</code> file.
+* I added nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and interjections, and conjunctions to the <code>lexd</code> file.
 * In my grammar documentation, I created <code>morphTests</code> to test morphological analysis.
 * I used scraped text from Wikipedia and the Bible to evaluate my preliminary transducer on.

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 ^of/*of$
 coverage: 287237 / 1283498 (~0.22379232379014225188)
 remaining unknown forms: 996261

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 ^Ọlọrun/*Ọlọrun$
 ^lati/*lati$
-coverage: 53863 / 233959 (~0.23022409909428575092), '''23%'''
+coverage: 53863 / 233959 (~0.23022409909428575092)
 remaining unknown forms: 180096

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 ^Ọlọrun/*Ọlọrun$
 ^lati/*lati$
-coverage: 53863 / 233959 (~0.23022409909428575092)
+coverage: 53863 / 233959 (~0.23022409909428575092), '''23%'''
 remaining unknown forms: 180096

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 == Evaluation ==
-If you improve or make a transducer, you should test coverage over a large corpus and precision and recall against hand-annotated randomly selected forms;
+To evaluate my transducer, I tested coverage over two large corpuses in Yoruba; Wikipedia and the Bible.
 == Moving Forward ==

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 === Issues ===
-Some issues I've run into are implementing correctly the Yoruba characters and structure with apertium tools. Yoruba is a tonal language and has many characters in the vocabulary are accented. This led to some difficulty in the beginning of characters not being represented correctly.
+Some issues I've run into are implementing correctly the Yoruba characters and structure with apertium tools and the lack of a standard orthography for the language. Yoruba is a tonal language and has many characters in the vocabulary are accented and can be written differently depending on which region you learned the language in. This has led to some difficulty in the beginning of characters not being represented correctly.
 [[File:Vowels.png|thumb| Vowels Used in Yoruba]]

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 Some issues I've run into are implementing correctly the Yoruba characters and structure with apertium tools. Yoruba is a tonal language and has many characters in the vocabulary are accented. This led to some difficulty in the beginning of characters not being represented correctly.
-[[File:Vowels.png|upright=0.3]]
+[[File:Vowels.png|thumb| Vowels Used in Yoruba]]
 Also Yoruba doesn't have gendered or plural forms of nouns or adjectives, you express gender in some cases by adding another word, for example: <code>older sister</code> in Yoruba would be <code>ẹ̀gbọ́n obìnrin</code> with the first word meaning older sibling and the second word signifying female. Similar to Romance languages like French and Spanish, Yoruba also distinguishes verbs and interjections by familiarity; there are different ways to say a number of things depending on the recipient.

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 == Solution ==
 === Background ===
-Essentially, even though there are up to 55 million speakers of Yoruba from Southwestern Nigeria, it is still a relatively low resource language. It does have limited Google Translate functionality and some documentation, but they could use a lot of improvement.
+Essentially, even though there are up to 55 million speakers of Yoruba from Southwestern Nigeria, it is still an under-resourced language. It does have limited Google Translate functionality and some documentation, but they could use a lot of improvement.
 === Approach ===

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