Difference between revisions of "Wamesa and Tongan"

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===ton → wad evaluation===
 
===ton → wad evaluation===
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Percentage of unknown words: 8.33%
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Results when removing unknown word marks (stars)
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WER: 171.43 %
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PER: 171.43 %
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Results when unknown word marks (stars) not removed
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WER: 171.43 %
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PER: 171.43 %
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===Lexical Selection===
 
===Lexical Selection===

Revision as of 02:13, 26 March 2017

This page is a resource for machine translation between Wamesa and Tongan.

wad → ton evaluation

On the tests file, 77.47% of the words translate correctly, and the unknown word rate is 28.57%. The WER and PER are both 71.43% when *'d words are removed, and 100% when not removing *'s.

ton → wad evaluation

Percentage of unknown words: 8.33%

Results when removing unknown word marks (stars) WER: 171.43 % PER: 171.43 %

Results when unknown word marks (stars) not removed WER: 171.43 % PER: 171.43 %


Lexical Selection

wad → ton

In Wamesa, the 3rd person plural is indicated by a morpheme, but in Tongan, it can appear as a few different words.

  • (wad) se- → ou (ton)
  • (wad) se- → kinautolu (ton)

Wamesa only has one word for sick, while Tongan has a few.

  • (wad) pota → puke (ton)
  • (wad) pota → ʻa (ton)

ton → wad

Tongan only has one word for to swim, while Wamesa has a few.

  • (ton) kakau → as (wad)
  • (ton) kakau → kubira (wad)

Tongan has one word for ocean, while Wamesa has a couple.

  • (ton) moana → sasi (wad)
  • (ton) moana → rawanam (wad)

Documentation

Contrastive Grammar

Developed Resources

ton-wad
wad-ton