Difference between revisions of "Guarani and Warlpiri"

Revision as of 01:20, 26 March 2017

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
• Warlpiri to Guarani analyzer repository

Lexical Selection

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