Jeju and Ainu

Resources for machine translation between Jeju and Ainu

• Both translation directions are at: this repository

ain → jje evaluation

tests.txt evaluation

• WER: 100%
• PER: 100%
• Proportion of stems translated correctly: 11/11

sentences.txt evaluation

• WER: 100%
• PER: 100%
• Proportion of stems translated correctly: 73/296

jje → ain evaluation

tests.txt evaluation

• WER: 100%
• PER: 100%
• Proportion of stems translated correctly: 8/14

sentences.txt evaluation

• WER: 177.98% (not sure how these error rates can be above 100% but somehow we managed it)
• PER: 177.98%
• Proportion of stems translated correctly: 150/502

Lexical Selection

jje -> ain

• (jje)눈 -> (ain) ウパㇱ (snow)
• (jje)눈 -> (ain) シㇰ (eye)
• (jje)배 -> (ain) チㇷ゚ (ship)
• (jje)배 -> (ain) ト゚ィ (stomach)

ain -> jje

• (ain) サポ (older sister) -> 누나 (older sister speaker:male)
• (ain) サポ (older sister) -> 언니 (older sister, speaker:female)
• (ain) チュㇷ゚ (sun/moon/month) -> 달 (moon/month)
• (ain) チュㇷ゚ (sun/moon/month) -> 해 (sun)

Developed resources

Parallel Corpus Repository

Contrastive grammar

Contrastive grammar wiki page

Structural transfer

phttps://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Jeju_and_Ainu/Structural_transfer Structural transfer wiki page]