Bikol and Chamorro

Resources for machine translation between Bikol and Chamorro

• Bikol
• Chamorro

Developed Resources

• Contrastive Grammar

Translation Repositories

• Bikol to Chamorro translation
• Chamorro to Bikol translation

bcl → cha Evalutaion

• WER = 94.74%
• PER = 89.47%
• Proportion of stems translated correctly = 31.58%

Lexical Selection

Find at least two cases in each direction of a one-to-many mapping.

Bikol-Chamorro

• In Bikol, bóla means ball or compliment. In Chamorro, ball = bola and compliment = komplimenta.
• glóbo means map or balloon in Bikol. In Chamorro, map = mapa and balloon = abubu.

Chamorro-Bikol

• In Chamorro, guakse means to scrub (clothes) or to turn inside out. In Bikol, to scrub (clothes) is kuró-kusó and to turn inside out is balík.
• maggem means cautious or damp. In Bikol, máan means cautious and basá means damp.