Difference between revisions of "Bikol and Chamorro"

Revision as of 19:58, 29 March 2017

Resources for machine translation between Bikol and Chamorro

Find at least two cases in each direction of a one-to-many mapping.

In Bikol, bóla means ball or compliment. In Chamorro, ball = bola and compliment = komplimenta.

Lexical selection between bola and komplimenta is guided by the following rules:

Bola (ball) is chosen when:
- Preceded by a verb such as throw, toss, catch, play, buy, borrow, lend
- Followed by an adjective such as round, bouncy, colors

In Bikol, glóbo means map or balloon. In Chamorro, map = mapa and balloon = abubu.

For now, the default selection is set to translate glóbo to abubu, or balloon in English.

In Chamorro, guakse means to scrub (clothes) or to turn inside out. In Bikol, to scrub (clothes) is kuró-kusó and to turn inside out is balík.
maggem means cautious or damp. In Bikol, máan means cautious and basá means damp.

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 === Bikol-Chamorro ===
-* In Bikol, <b>bóla</b> means ball or compliment. In Chamorro, ball = <i>bola</i> and compliment = <i>komplimenta</i>.
+==== bóla ====
-* <b>glóbo</b> means map or balloon in Bikol. In Chamorro, map = <i>mapa</i> and balloon = <i>abubu</i>.
+In Bikol, <b>bóla</b> means ball or compliment. In Chamorro, ball = <i>bola</i> and compliment = <i>komplimenta</i>.
+Lexical selection between bola and komplimenta is guided by the following rules:
+* Bola (ball) is chosen when:
+** Preceded by a verb such as throw, toss, catch, play, buy, borrow, lend
+** Followed by an adjective such as round, bouncy, colors
+==== glóbo ====
+In Bikol, <b>glóbo</b> means map or balloon. In Chamorro, map = <i>mapa</i> and balloon = <i>abubu</i>.
+For now, the default selection is set to translate glóbo to abubu, or balloon in English.
 === Chamorro-Bikol ===