Difference between revisions of "Lingala and Kikuyu"
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| − | + | In addition to adding many one-to-one mappings to our .dix file, we have included a couple of one-to-many mappings for each direction of translation. | |
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| + | From Lingala to Kikuyu, we consider four one-to-many mappings: | ||
| + | *The Lingala verb kokíma can be translated in English as both "to run" and "to run away." Kikuyu has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively, __ and __. | ||
| + | *The Lingala verb kofánda can be translated in English as both "to sit" and "to live" (as in reside). Kikuyu has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively , __ and __. | ||
| + | *The Lingala verb kobánza can be translated in English as both "to think" and "to remember." Kikuyu has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively, __ and __. | ||
| + | *The Lingala noun mabele can be translated in English as both "sand" and "milk." Kikuyu has two distinct nouns corresponding to these English translations, respectively, __ and __. | ||
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| + | From Kikuyu to Lingala, we consider three one-to-many-mappings: | ||
| + | *The Kikuyu verb __ can be translated in English as both "to obey" and "to hear." Lingala has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively, kotosa and koyoka. | ||
| + | *The Kikuyu verb __ can be translated in English as both "to learn" and "to remove." Lingala has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively, koyekola and kokukula. | ||
| + | *the Kikuyu noun __ can be translated in English as both "milk" and "pond." Lingala has two distinct nouns corresponding to these English translations, respectively, mabele and etimá. | ||
===lin → kik evaluation=== | ===lin → kik evaluation=== | ||
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Revision as of 15:57, 21 March 2017
Resources for machine translation between Lingala and Kikuyu. Code is stored in a GitHub Repository.
Contents
Developed Resources
Parallel Corpus
A parallel corpus created using two translations of Genesis is available on Github.
Contrastive Grammar
Contrastive Grammar is detailed on the wiki page Lingala and Kikuyu/Contrastive Grammar.
Lexical Selection
In addition to adding many one-to-one mappings to our .dix file, we have included a couple of one-to-many mappings for each direction of translation.
From Lingala to Kikuyu, we consider four one-to-many mappings:
- The Lingala verb kokíma can be translated in English as both "to run" and "to run away." Kikuyu has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively, __ and __.
- The Lingala verb kofánda can be translated in English as both "to sit" and "to live" (as in reside). Kikuyu has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively , __ and __.
- The Lingala verb kobánza can be translated in English as both "to think" and "to remember." Kikuyu has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively, __ and __.
- The Lingala noun mabele can be translated in English as both "sand" and "milk." Kikuyu has two distinct nouns corresponding to these English translations, respectively, __ and __.
From Kikuyu to Lingala, we consider three one-to-many-mappings:
- The Kikuyu verb __ can be translated in English as both "to obey" and "to hear." Lingala has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively, kotosa and koyoka.
- The Kikuyu verb __ can be translated in English as both "to learn" and "to remove." Lingala has two distinct verbs corresponding to these English translations, respectively, koyekola and kokukula.
- the Kikuyu noun __ can be translated in English as both "milk" and "pond." Lingala has two distinct nouns corresponding to these English translations, respectively, mabele and etimá.
lin → kik evaluation
TODO
kik → lin evaluation
TODO
