Sardinian and English/Structural transfer

pre-evaluation

• WER, PER, and other useful numbers:

 Statistics about input files
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 Number of words in reference: 81
 Number of words in test: 80
 Number of unknown words (marked with a star) in test: 14
 Percentage of unknown words: 17.50 %

 Results when removing unknown-word marks (stars)
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 Edit distance: 77
 Word error rate (WER): 95.06 %
 Number of position-independent correct words: 12
 Position-independent word error rate (PER): 85.19 %

• coverage from monolingual transducer on srd.tests:

 Coverage: 97.78%
 Top unknown words in the corpus:
 1	   paìsu
 1	   Lettu

• coverage from bilingual transducer on srd.tests:

 Number of tokenised words in the corpus: 91
 Coverage: 84.62%
 Top unknown words in the corpus:
 2	   bellu
 1	   paisu
 1	   paìsu
 1	   Lettu
 1	   furatu
 1	   dinari
 1	   punitos
 1	   rica
 1	   datu
 1	   milli
 1	   francos
 1	   betzu
 1	   iscimpru

.rtx rules

• Item 1: Noun-adjective order in noun phraseology

  Ex: (srd) Sa Frantza est unu paisu bellu. → (eng) France is a beautiful country.

  Outputs for:

  tagger:

^Su<det><def><f><sg>$ ^Frantza<np><top><f><sg>$ ^est<n><m><sg>$ ^unu<det><ind><m><sg>$ ^paisu<n><m><sg>$ ^bellu<adj><m><sg>$^.<sent>$^.<sent>$

• lex:

  1:SELECT:0.8:Su<det><def><f><sg>:2:The<det><def><f><sg>

  ^Su<det><def><f><sg>/The<det><def><f><sg>$ ^Frantza<np><top><f><sg>/France<np><top><f><sg>$ ^est<n><m><sg>/east<n><sg>$ ^unu<det><ind><m><sg>/a<det><ind><m><sg>$ ^paisu<n><m><sg>/country<n><sg>$ ^bellu<adj><m><sg>/beautiful<adj><m><sg>$^.<sent>/.<sent>$^.<sent>/.<sent>$

  transfer:

  ^Su<det><def><f><sg>/<def><f><sg>/The<det><def><f><sg>$ ^Frantza<np><top><f><sg>/France<np><top><f><sg>$ ^est<n><m><sg>/east<n><sg>$ ^unu<det><ind><m><sg>/a<det><ind><m><sg>$ ^paisu<n><m><sg>/country<n><sg>$ ^bellu<adj><m><sg>/beautiful<adj><m><sg>$^.<sent>/.<sent>$^.<sent>/.<sent>$

  abc-xyz:

  #The #France east #a #beautiful #country.

uh oh, it's translating est as east now instead of is!

• Item 2: Posessive determiner/marker order in noun phraseology

  Ex: (srd) Libru meu est. → (eng) It is my book.

  Outputs for:

  tagger:^Libru<n><m><sg>$ ^meu<adj><pos><m><sg>$ ^est<n><m><sg>$^.<sent>$^.<sent>$

  lex

  transfer:

  abc-xyz:

• Item 3: The English determiner "the" is immutable, while the Sardinian determiner "su" must agree in number and gender with the noun it modifies

  Ex: (srd) Una de sas berbekes est maláida. → (eng) One of the sheep is sick.

  Outputs for:

  tagger:

  lex

  transfer:

  abc-xyz:

• Item 4: For most uses/conjugations of verbs in Sardinian, the verb stands on its own without a personal pronoun, while in English personal pronouns always precede any conjugated verbs. In other words, the tags of "appo" (I have) determine a new word "I" which precedes "have" in the English translation.

  Ex: (srd) Appo pèrditu duos de sos libros meos. → (eng) I have lost two of my books.

  Outputs for:

  tagger:

  lex

  transfer:

  abc-xyz:

post evaluation

• WER, PER, and other useful numbers, part 2:
• Coverage from monolingual transducer, part 2:
• Coverage from bilingual transducer, part 2:,,