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

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