Munsee and English/AmbiguityResolution

umu

Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity

• Coverage of umu.sentences.txt: 849/1499 (56.64%)
• Ambiguity: 1717/1499 (1.145)
• Coverage of bilingual transducer: 609/1296 (46.99%)
• Coverage of eng.sentences.txt:

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• Coverage of umu.sentences.txt: 867/1522 (~56.97%)
  • Ambiguity: 1776/1522 (~1.167)

• Coverage of umu.corpus.basic.txt: 848/1499 (~56.57%)
  • Ambiguity: 1738/1499 (~1.159)

Identified Ambiguity

Morphological Ambiguity

1. Wan ("this") can be an animate demonstrative pronoun or demonstrative determiner. To resolve this ambiguity, we wrote code to choose the demonstrative determiner when wan precedes a noun.
   1. ^Wan/Wan<det><dem><aa><sg>$ ^moonáhkeew/moonáhkeew<n><aa><sg>/moonáhkeew<n><aa><px3sg>$ ^kawíiw/kawíi<v><iv><aa><s_3sg>$^../..<sent>$