Okinawan and Miyako

Resources for machine translation between Okinawan and Miyako

• Contrastive Grammar
• Lexical Selection
• Structural Transfer
• Parallel corpus repo
• Language pair repo

Lexical Selection

• In Miyako, はい can mean field, needle, or south, and is also a causative auxiliary verb. If it is followed by string, it is probably needle.
• Hand and arm are the same word in Okinawan (てぃい), but different words in Miyako. If てぃい is followed by an instrumental, we are assuming it is hand.

Evaluation

Evaluation as of lexical selection

ryu → mvi Evaluation

Evaluation of tests

• WER: 100 %
• PER: 100 %
• Coverage: 89%

Evaluation of sentences

• WER: 90.32 %
• PER: 90.32 %
• Coverage: 62.1%

mvi → ryu Evaluation

Evaluation of tests

• WER: 88.89 %
• PER: 77.78 %
• Coverage: 100 %

Evaluation of sentences

• WER: 100%
• PER: 100%
• Coverage: 80.65%