Okinawan and Miyako
From LING073
Contents
Resources for machine translation between Okinawan and Miyako
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%
Final Evaluation
ryu → mvi Evaluation
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Evaluation of sentences
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mvi → ryu Evaluation
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Expansion of Miyako transducer and ryu → mvi
Morphology
- I added more numbers. 6 is not included because I am confused as to what it is.
- I expanded classifiers, adding days, portion, group, and people
