Western Abenaki and English/Structural Transfer
From LING073
Contents
Pre-Evaluation
- WER
- PER
- Coverage
Implementation
Possessive Prefixes
We chose to implement the simple possessive prefixes of [Western Abenaki]. Their forms are seen below:
| Person | Prefix | Suffix | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | n- | -- | -- |
| 2 | k- | -- | -- |
| 3 | w- | -a(-) | -- |
| 1PL (excl.) | n- | -na(-) | -- |
| 1PL (incl.) | k- | -na(-) | -- |
| 2PL | k- | -wȣ(-) | -- |
| 3PL | w- | -wȣ(-) | -- |
Example Sentence
- Western Abenaki: N'cape pita osagipogwad.
- English: My coffee tastes very bitter.
- Old
abe-engOutput: #coffee very #taste bitter
Outputs
tagger
lex
transfer
abe-eng
Post-Evaluation
- WER
- PER
- Coverage
