Shan and Thai/Structural transfer

Pre-evaluation

Word error rate (WER): 296.25%

Position-Independent word error rate (PER): 295.00%

Bilingual translation coverage: 25.51%

Example

• (shn) ၽူၼ်တေမႃးဝႃႇ → (tha) ว่าฝนจะมา ("Rain will come (they said)")

  (shn) ၽူၼ်<n> တေ<vaux> မႃး<vblex> ဝႃႇ<comp> → (tha) ว่า<comp> ฝน<n> จะ<vaux> มา<vblex>

We were able to add a rule so that this sentence now translates into Thai with the complementizer at the beginning.

Output of lex mode: ^ၽူၼ်<n>/ฝน<n>$^တေ<vaux>/จะ<vaux>$^မႃး<vblex>/มา<vblex>$^ဝႃႇ<comp>/ว่า<comp>$ .

Output of transfer mode:

Applying rule 5 (line 60): ^ၽူၼ်<n>/ฝน<n>$

Applying rule 7 (line 63): ^တေ<vaux>/จะ<vaux>$^မႃး<vblex>/มา<vblex>$

Applying rule 3 (line 57): ^default<NP>{^ၽူၼ်<n>/ฝน<n>$}$^default<VP>{^တေ<vaux>/จะ<vaux>$^မႃး<vblex>/มา<vblex>$}$

Applying rule 10 (line 67): ^default{^default<NP>{^ၽူၼ်<n>/ฝน<n>$}$^default<VP>{^တေ<vaux>/จะ<vaux>$^မႃး<vblex>/มา<vblex>$}$}$^ဝႃႇ<comp>/ว่า<comp>$

Applying output rule 9 (line 67): default<Comp> -> ^default<S>{^default<NP>{^ၽူၼ်<n>/ฝน<n>$}$^default<VP>{^တေ<vaux>/จะ<vaux>$^မႃး<vblex>/มา<vblex>$}$}$^ဝႃႇ<comp>/ว่า<comp>$

No rule specified: ^ว่า<comp>$

Applying output rule 2 (line 57): default<S> -> ^default<NP>{^ၽူၼ်<n>/ฝน<n>$}$^default<VP>{^တေ<vaux>/จะ<vaux>$^မႃး<vblex> /มา<vblex>$}$

Applying output rule 4 (line 60): default<NP> -> ^ၽူၼ်<n>/ฝน<n>$

No rule specified: ^ฝน<n><m><sg>$

Applying output rule 6 (line 63): default<VP> -> ^တေ<vaux>/จะ<vaux>$^မႃး<vblex>/มา<vblex>$

No rule specified: ^จะ<vaux>$

No rule specified: ^มา<vblex>$
^ว่า<comp>$^ฝน<n><m><sg>$^จะ<vaux>$^มา<vblex>$ .