Difference between revisions of "Wamesa and Tongan"

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This page is a resource for machine translation between [https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Wamesa Wamesa] and [https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Tongan Tongan].
 
This page is a resource for machine translation between [https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Wamesa Wamesa] and [https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Tongan Tongan].
 
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==wad → ton evaluation==
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===wad → ton evaluation===
 
On the <code>tests</code> 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.
 
On the <code>tests</code> 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.
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===ton → wad evaluation===
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===Lexical Selection===
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====wad → ton====
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In Wamesa, the 3rd person plural is indicated by a morpheme, but in Tongan, it can appear as a few different words.</br>
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* (wad) se- → ou (ton)
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* (wad) se- → kinautolu (ton)
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Wamesa only has one word for ''sick'', while Tongan has a few.</br>
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* (wad) pota → puke (ton)
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* (wad) pota → ʻa (ton)
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====ton → wad====
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Tongan only has one word for ''to swim'', while Wamesa has a few.</br>
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* (ton) kakau → as (wad)
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* (ton) kakau → kubira (wad)
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Tongan has one word for ''ocean'', while Wamesa has a couple.</br>
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* (ton) moana → sasi (wad)
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* (ton) moana → rawanam (wad)
  
 
==Documentation==
 
==Documentation==

Revision as of 01:54, 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

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.</br>

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

Wamesa only has one word for sick, while Tongan has a few.</br>

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

ton → wad

Tongan only has one word for to swim, while Wamesa has a few.</br>

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

Tongan has one word for ocean, while Wamesa has a couple.</br>

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

Documentation

Contrastive Grammar

Developed Resources