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| − | + | ==Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity== | |
| − | + | Link to git: https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/ling073-kam | |
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| − | ==Bible Corpus== | + | ===Bible Corpus=== |
| − | Ambiguity: ~1. | + | Ambiguity: ~1.02947229768667160616 |
Tokens: 24294 | Tokens: 24294 | ||
| − | Analyses: | + | Analyses: 25010 |
| − | ==Storybook Corpus== | + | ===Storybook Corpus=== |
| − | Ambiguity: ~1. | + | Ambiguity: ~~1.02947229768667160616 {{InlineComment|this number doesn't seem to correspond to the numbers below -JNW}} |
Tokens: 1100 | Tokens: 1100 | ||
| − | Analyses: | + | Analyses: 1132 |
| − | == | + | ===Sentences=== |
Ambiguous words: class 9/10 nouns look the same in the singular and plural. | Ambiguous words: class 9/10 nouns look the same in the singular and plural. | ||
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The cooking pot is going to break. -- our modification to make it singular | The cooking pot is going to break. -- our modification to make it singular | ||
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| + | {{comment|What are the analyses? -JNW}} | ||
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| + | ==Final Evaluation of Ambiguity== | ||
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| + | ===Bible=== | ||
| + | Ambiguity before disambiguation: ~1.02947229768667160616 | ||
| + | Ambiguity after disambiguation: ~1.02947229768667160616 | ||
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| + | ===Storybook corpus=== | ||
| + | Ambiguity before disambiguation: ~1.02909090909090909091 | ||
| + | Ambiguity after disambiguation: ~1.02909090909090909091 | ||
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| + | ===Reasoning=== | ||
| + | We disambiguated between singulars and plurals of class 9/10 nouns through rules that the noun cannot be singular if followed by a plural verb and vice versa. We know that the rule does work through testing it manually with our own examples as we built the rules, but unfortunately they didn't reduce the ambiguity at all because the specific class 9/10 nouns we have in our lexd file and the few verbs in the few tenses we have so far never appear next to each other in the corpora... | ||
[[Category:Sp23_Disambiguation]] | [[Category:Sp23_Disambiguation]] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:06, 9 June 2023
Contents
Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity
Link to git: https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/ling073-kam
Bible Corpus
Ambiguity: ~1.02947229768667160616
Tokens: 24294
Analyses: 25010
Storybook Corpus
Ambiguity: ~~1.02947229768667160616 this number doesn't seem to correspond to the numbers below -JNW
Tokens: 1100
Analyses: 1132
Sentences
Ambiguous words: class 9/10 nouns look the same in the singular and plural.
"Nyũngũ niũkwa"
“The cooking pots are going to break.” -- from Whiteley and Muli (1962) pgs 26 and 139
Nyũngũ nĩũkwa
The cooking pot is going to break. -- our modification to make it singular
What are the analyses? -JNW
Final Evaluation of Ambiguity
Bible
Ambiguity before disambiguation: ~1.02947229768667160616 Ambiguity after disambiguation: ~1.02947229768667160616
Storybook corpus
Ambiguity before disambiguation: ~1.02909090909090909091 Ambiguity after disambiguation: ~1.02909090909090909091
Reasoning
We disambiguated between singulars and plurals of class 9/10 nouns through rules that the noun cannot be singular if followed by a plural verb and vice versa. We know that the rule does work through testing it manually with our own examples as we built the rules, but unfortunately they didn't reduce the ambiguity at all because the specific class 9/10 nouns we have in our lexd file and the few verbs in the few tenses we have so far never appear next to each other in the corpora...
