Nuosu and Mandarin

External Resources

• Nuosu-Mandarin Machine Translation Repository
• Mandarin(zho) Transducer
• Nuosu(iii) Transducer
• iii-zho corpus repository

Additions

Disambiguation

• Added a rule that distinguishes adverbs and main verbs (ex. ꃅ)
• Added a rule that distinguishes exhaustion particles and main verbs for (ex. ꌐ)
• Added a rule that distinguishes end-of-sentence particles and main verbs for (ex. ꄉ)

Structural Transfer

• Added one more sentence for each of the five rules, bringing the total to 10 sentences
• Added a rule which added an adjective-specific marker when translating to Mandarin.
• Added a rule which specified the explicit topic marker in Nuosu
• Changed the rule that specified the organization of NP and ClP phrases

Adding Stems

• Added 100 new stems

Polished RBMT System

Nuosu Transducer

• Precision: %
• Recall: %
• Coverage over large corpus: 182179 / 243953 (~0.74677909269408451628) remaining unknown forms: 61774
• Stems in transducer: 276

MT iii->zho

• Over : iii.longer.text
  • Word Error Rate (WER):  %
  • Position-independent word error rate (PER):  %
  • Percentage of unknown words:  %
  • Number of position-independent correct words:
  • Coverage: