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Documentation for Lexical Selection can be found [[Wamesa_and_Tongan/Lexical_Selection | here]] | Documentation for Lexical Selection can be found [[Wamesa_and_Tongan/Lexical_Selection | here]] | ||
====wad → ton==== | ====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/> | + | #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- → ou (ton) |
| − | * (wad) se- → kinautolu (ton) | + | #* (wad) se- → kinautolu (ton) |
| − | Wamesa only has one word for ''sick'', while Tongan has a few.<br/> | + | #Wamesa only has one word for ''sick'', while Tongan has a few.<br/> |
| − | * (wad) pota → puke (ton) | + | #* (wad) pota → puke (ton) |
| − | * (wad) pota → ʻa (ton) | + | #* (wad) pota → ʻa (ton) |
| − | (re = eye, landward; bo = row, fruit) | + | #(re = eye, landward; bo = row, fruit) |
| − | + | The Wamesa word ''re'' can mean ''eye'' or ''landward/inland'' | |
| − | + | *(wad) re → (eye) mata (ton) | |
| − | + | *(wad) re → (landward) (ton) | |
| − | + | *(wad) bo → (fruit) foʻi ʻakau (ton) | |
| − | + | *(wad) bo → (to row) (ton) | |
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====ton → wad==== | ====ton → wad==== | ||
Tongan only has one word for ''to swim'', while Wamesa has a few.<br/> | Tongan only has one word for ''to swim'', while Wamesa has a few.<br/> | ||
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[[Wamesa_and_Tongan/Contrastive_Grammar | Contrastive Grammar]] | [[Wamesa_and_Tongan/Contrastive_Grammar | Contrastive Grammar]] | ||
| + | [[Wamesa_and_Tongan/Lexical_Selection | Lexical Selection]] | ||
==Developed Resources== | ==Developed Resources== | ||
Revision as of 16:10, 28 March 2017
This page is a resource for machine translation between Wamesa and Tongan.
Contents
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 in ton.sentences.txt (bilingual corpus): 7% Percentage of unknown words in test file: 0%
Results when removing unknown word marks (stars) | WER: 100% PER: 100% Number of position-independent correct words: 1
Results when unknown word marks (stars) not removed | WER: 100% PER: 100%
- There is still one bug that we are trying to fix. siʻaku is being translated to #<poss>, but it should translate to nothing as there is no equivalent in Wamesa. The percentages above are when the incorrect #<poss> is taken out of the ton-wad.tests.txt file. Otherwise, the percentage increases to 114.29%.
Lexical Selection
Documentation for Lexical Selection can be found here
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)
- (re = eye, landward; bo = row, fruit)
The Wamesa word re can mean eye or landward/inland
- (wad) re → (eye) mata (ton)
- (wad) re → (landward) (ton)
- (wad) bo → (fruit) foʻi ʻakau (ton)
- (wad) bo → (to row) (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 Lexical Selection
