Shan and Thai

Resources for machine translation between Shan and Thai

Resources for Shan: https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Shan

Resources for Thai: https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Thai

Lexical Selection: https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Shan_and_Thai/Lexical_selection

Contrastive Grammar: https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Shan_and_Thai/Contrastive_Grammar

Structural Transfer: https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Shan_and_Thai/Structural_transfer

External Resources

Link to our translation system: https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/ling073-shn-tha

Shan transducer: https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/ling073-shn

Thai transducer: https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/apertium-tha

shn -> tha evaluation

Coverage of Shan setences by the Shan monolingual transducer: 107/199 (~53%)

Coverage of Shan setences by the Shan Thai bilingual transducer: 47/226 (~20%)

10 setences from the setences we are testing:

Is the last line in each item the current output? What's up with the @ signs? - JNW

• မႃတူဝ်ဢၼ်လႅၼ်ႈယူႇ
  • หมาตัวที่วิ่งอยู่
  • ^မႃ/မႃ<n>/@မႃ/မႃ<n>$ ^တူဝ်/တူဝ်<clf>/@တူဝ်/တူဝ်<clf>$ ^ဢၼ်/ဢၼ်<clf>/@ဢၼ်/ဢၼ်<clf>$ ^လႅၼ်ႈ/လႅၼ်ႈ<vblex>/@လႅၼ်ႈ/လႅၼ်ႈ<vblex>$ ^ယူႇ/*ယူႇ/@ယူႇ/*ယူႇ$ .
  • @မႃ/မႃ @တူဝ်/တူဝ် @ဢၼ်/ဢၼ် @လႅၼ်ႈ/လႅၼ်ႈ @ယူႇ/*ယူႇ .

• ၵိၼ်မႃး
  • กินมา
  • ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ ^မႃး/မႃး<vblex>/@မႃး/မႃး<vblex>$ .
  • @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် @မႃး/မႃး .

• ဝႆႉၵိၼ်
  • ไว้กิน
  • ^ဝႆႉ/ဝႆႉ<vblex>/ဝႆႉ<particle>/ဝႆႉ<adv>/@ဝႆႉ/ဝႆႉ<vblex>/ဝႆႉ<particle>/ဝႆႉ<adv>$ ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ .
  • @ဝႆႉ/ဝႆႉ @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် .

• ၵိၼ်ဝႆႉ
  • กินไว้
  • ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ ^ဝႆႉ/ဝႆႉ<vblex>/ဝႆႉ<particle>/ဝႆႉ<adv>/@ဝႆႉ/ဝႆႉ<vblex>/ဝႆႉ<particle>/ဝႆႉ<adv>$ .
  • @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် @ဝႆႉ/ဝႆႉ .

• ၶႂ်ႈၵိၼ်
  • อยากกิน
  • ^ၶႂ်ႈ/*ၶႂ်ႈ/@ၶႂ်ႈ/*ၶႂ်ႈ$ ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ .
  • @ၶႂ်ႈ/*ၶႂ်ႈ @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် .

• ၵိၼ်မႅၼ်ႈ
  • กินอย่างไม่ได้ตั้งใจ
  • ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ ^မႅၼ်ႈ/*မႅၼ်ႈ/@မႅၼ်ႈ/*မႅၼ်ႈ$ .
  • @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် @မႅၼ်ႈ/*မႅၼ်ႈ .

• ၵိၼ်လီလီ
  • กินดีดี
  • ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ ^လီ/*လီ/@လီ/*လီ$ ^လီ/*လီ/@လီ/*လီ$ .
  • @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် @လီ/*လီ @လီ/*လီ .

• ၵိၼ်ၸွတ်ႇ
  • กินหมด
  • ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ ^ၸ/*ၸ/@ၸ/*ၸ$ွ^တ်ႇ/*တ်ႇ/@တ်ႇ/*တ်ႇ$ .
  • @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် @ၸ/*ၸွ@တ်ႇ/*တ်ႇ .

• ၵိၼ်တူၺ်း
  • กินดู
  • ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ ^တူၺ်း/တူၺ်း<vblex>/@တူၺ်း/တူၺ်း<vblex>$ .
  • @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် @တူၺ်း/တူၺ်း .

• ၵိၼ်လဵၼ်ႈ
  • กินเล่น
  • ^ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>/@ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ်<vblex>$ ^လဵၼ်ႈ/လဵၼ်ႈ<vblex>/@လဵၼ်ႈ/လဵၼ်ႈ<vblex>$ .
  • @ၵိၼ်/ၵိၼ် @လဵၼ်ႈ/လဵၼ်ႈ .

Our setences are rather short but it was hard to find long sentences with pre-existing translation into any language.

Additions

• Add 8 words to the bilingual dictionary
• Add 2 transfer rules