Shanghainese and Mandarin Chinese/Ambiguity Resolution

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Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity

  • Number of Tokens in Corpus:
  • Total Number of Analyses in Corpus:
  • Ambiguity:

Identified Ambiguity

Morphological ambiguity

  • wuu: 今朝天好。
  • analysis: ^今朝/今朝<n>$ ^天/天<n>$ ^好/好<adj>$ ^。/。<sent>$ ^./.<sent>$
  • zho: 今天天气好。
  • eng: The weather's nice today.
  • wuu: 天好蓝。
  • analysis: ^天/天<n>$ ^好/好<adv>$ ^蓝/蓝<adj>$ ^。/。<sent>$ ^./.<sent>$
  • zho: 天很蓝。
  • eng: The sky is very blue.

Translating from Shanghainese to Mandarin Chinese, the adverb 好 is equivalent to the adverb 很 in Mandarin Chinese Translating from Shanghainese to Mandarin Chinese, the adjective 好 is equivalent to the adjective 好 in Mandarin Chinese


Lexical ambiguity

  • wuu: 今朝天好。
  • analysis: ^今朝/今朝<n>$ ^天/天<n>$ ^好/好<adj>$ ^。/。<sent>$ ^./.<sent>$
  • zho: 今天天气好。
  • eng: The weather's nice today.
  • wuu: 天好蓝。
  • analysis: ^天/天<n>$ ^好/好<adv>$ ^蓝/蓝<adj>$ ^。/。<sent>$ ^./.<sent>$
  • zho: 天很蓝。
  • eng: The sky is very blue.

Translating from Shanghainese to Mandarin Chinese, 天 → 天气 when there is an adjective that comes after 天. For example, 好(good) or 不好(not good)

Final Evaluation of Ambiguity

  • Total Number of Analyses in Corpus:
  • Ambiguity:
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