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:

Comp{
   S{
       NP{
             ^ၽူၼ်<n>/ฝน<n>$
         }
       VP{
             ^တေ<vaux>/จะ<vaux>$
             ^မႃး<vblex>/มา<vblex>$
         }
    }
    ဝႃႇ<comp>/ว่า<comp>$
}

Output of translation pair: ว่า#ฝนจะมา .

Post-evaluation

Word error rate (WER): 296.25%

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

Bilingual translation coverage: 25.51%