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Resources for machine translation between Guarani and Warlpiri

Corpora

• Warlpiri Bible

• Guarani Bible

• English Bible

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Guarani

Developed Resources

• Corpus Repository
• Contrastive Grammar
• Guarani to Warlpiri analyzer repository
  • This repo will hold the fully functioning rule-based machine translation system.
• Warlpiri to Guarani analyzer repository
  • This repo will not be developed further.
• Lexical selection Wiki page
• Structural transfer Wiki page

Lexical Selection

• (gug) ahy'o → (wbp) ngukarna "throat"; lirra "voice"
• (gug) ha'anga → (wbp) japirdimi "threaten"; walaparrirni "imitate"
• (gug) ajúra → (wbp) japirdimi "collar"; waninja "neck"
• (wbp) rdaka → (gug) avatisoka "hand"; po "five"
• (wbp) kirdirrpa → (gug) itakua "cave"; ka'irãi "jail"

wbp → gug evaluation

Results when running on tests

• Total number of words: 14
• Total number of unknown words: 4
• Percentage of unknown words: 28.57%
• Percentage of stems translated correctly: 71.43%

When removing unknown words:

• WER = 78.57%
• PER = 78.57%

When unknown words are not removed:

• WER = 100%
• PER = 100%

Results when running on sentences (corpus)

• Total number of words: 58
• Total number of unknown words: 68
• Percentage of unknown words: 84.45%
• Percentage of stems translate correctly: 15.52%

When removing unknown words:

• WER = 22.41%
• PER = 22.41%

When unknown words are not removed:

• WER = 100%
• PER = 100%

gug → wbp evaluation

Results when running on tests

• Total number of words: 13
• Total number of unknown words: 0
• Percentage of unknown words: 0%
• Percentage of stems translated correctly: 100%

When removing unknown words:

• WER = 92.86%
• PER = 92.86%

When unknown words are not removed:

• WER = 92.86%
• PER = 92.86%

Results when running on sentences (corpus)

• Total number of words: 66
• Total number of unknown words: 60
• Percentage of unknown words: 90.9%
• Percentage of stems translated correctly: 9.09%

When removing unknown words:

• WER = 0.0%
• PER = 0.0%

When unknown words are not removed:

• WER = 100%
• PER = 100%

Final Evaluation

3 new lexical selection rules

gug → wbp

• (gug) ahy'o → (wbp) ngukarna "throat"; lirra "voice"
  • Rule: Select "lirra" (Eng: voice) as the translation of "ahy'o" when it is followed by "tyapu" (Eng: loud) or "kirirĩ" (Eng: quiet). Select "ngukarna" (Eng: throat) as the translation of "ahy'o" when it is followed by "rasy" (Eng: sore). Otherwise, select "lirra" as the default.
  • Ha'e ahy'o tyapu ("His/Her loud voice")
  • Ha'e oguereko ahy'o rasy ("He/she/they have a sore throat")

• (gug) ajúra → (wbp) japirdimi "collar"; waninja "neck"
  • Rule: Select "japirdimi" (Eng: collar) as the translation of "ajúra" when it is followed by color words such as "pytã" (Eng: red), "chovy" (Eng: blue) or "aky" (Eng: green). Select "waninja" (Eng: neck) as the translation of "ajúra" when it is followed by "puku" (Eng: long) or "koli" (Eng: short). Otherwise, select "waninja" as the default.
  • Ajúra puku ("long neck")
  • Ajúra pytã ("red collar")

• (gug) akã → (wbp) jurru "head"; payarrpa "hill"
• (gug) asu → (wbp) jampu "left"; jampu-karra "left-handed"

wbp → gug

• (wbp) muru-pinyi → (gug) mboy'u "swallow"; kuapyti "insert"
  • Rule: select "mboy'u" if "muru-pinyi" is followed by food or drink words: "ngapa" (water/grog), "pama" (liquor), "jirnarri" (food), and "mangarri" (vegetable). In other cases, select "kuapyti".
  • Kurdu-ngku muru-pinyi ngapa. (Eng: The child is swallowing water/grog.)
  • muru-pinyi walya (Eng: insert in the ground)

• (wbp) kirdirrpa → (gug) itakua "cave"; ka'irãi "jail"
  • Rule: We couldn't come up with a good way to solve this problem. We decided to select "itakua" as the default, because it appears to be more common.
  • Kurdu-ngku nyanyi kirdirrpa. (Eng: The child is looking for the cave.)
  • Wati-ngku jarda-jarrimi kirdirrpa-rla (Eng: The man sleeps in the jail.)

• (wbp) juka → (gug) asuka "sugar"; aichémemby "cousin"
• (wbp) warlu → (gug) tini "hot"; aku "angry"

Morphology additions

• Clitics
  • (wbp) -yijala cl. also, too, likewise.
  • (wbp) -nyayirni Variant: -nyarrirni. cl. very, really -> (gug) adverb: asy

• Conjunction??
  • ngula cj. 1. that, which, who. Syn: kuja. 2.he, she, it, they, them. Referring back to something in previous context.

• Cs?
  • -jangka cs. 1. from. 2. because. Syn: -ngurlu~-ngirli, -warnu.

• Reflexive?
  • nyanungu pn.

• ngana - who

• yangka nm. aforementioned one, same one mentioned before.
• Numbers
• -juku cl. still, yet. Syn: -kirli.
• -pinki ns. such-like, things pertaining to.

-kari ns. another, other.

Disambiguation

• Number vs Noun (e.g. rdaka = hand or five)