Japhug and English/Structural Transfer

Pre-Evaluation

Statistics About Input Files

Number of words in reference: 47
Number of words in test: 33
Number of unknown words (marked with a star) in test: 18
Percentage of unknown words: 54.55 %

Results when removing unknown-word marks (stars)

Edit distance: 47
Word error rate (WER): 100.00 %
Number of position-independent correct words: 0
Position-independent word error rate (PER): 100.00 %

Coverage Test on jya.tests.txt in Bilingual Transducer

TOP UNKNOWN WORDS:
      1 ^ʁnɯtɤrtsɯɣ/*ʁnɯtɤrtsɯɣ$
      1 ^ɲɯrganɯ/*ɲɯrganɯ$
      1 ^ɲɤmtsɯr/*ɲɤmtsɯr$
      1 ^ɯʑo/*ɯʑo$
      1 ^ɯtaʁ/*ɯtaʁ$
      1 ^ɯjme/*ɯjme$
      1 ^ɕɤrɯ/*ɕɤrɯ$
      1 ^xuexiao/*xuexiao$
      1 ^tʂu/*tʂu$
      1 ^pɯ́wɣsɯmtoa/*pɯ́wɣsɯmtoa$
      1 ^mɯpɯrɤʑia/*mɯpɯrɤʑia$
      1 ^mɯpjɤpenɯ/*mɯpjɤpenɯ$
      1 ^mɤpe/*mɤpe$
      1 ^kɯkɯra/*kɯkɯra$
      1 ^kɤzo/*kɤzo$
      1 ^khramba/*khramba$
      1 ^aʑo/*aʑo$
      1 ^ambro/*ambro$
coverage: 24 / 42 (~0.57142857142857142857)
remaining unknown forms: 18
ambiguity: 54 / 42 (~1.28571428571428571429) 

Structural Transfer Rule

We worked on Contrastive Grammar #1: "For clauses with transitive verbs, in Japhug the object generally precedes the verb (and follows the subject). In English however the object follows the verb."

Instead of switching the object with a verb, we switched the object with a determiner.

So lɯlu nɯ kɯ (direct translation: cat that with) outputs #that #cat instead of #cat #that.

Our transfer rule successfully switched the object (cat) with the determiner (nɯ).

Post-Evaluation

Statistics About Input Files

Results when removing unknown-word marks (stars)

Coverage Test on jya.tests.txt in Bilingual Transducer