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%

Final Evaluation

ryu → mvi Evaluation

Evaluation of tests

• WER:
• PER:
• Coverage:

Evaluation of sentences

• WER:
• PER:
• Coverage:

mvi → ryu Evaluation

Evaluation of tests

• WER:
• PER:
• Coverage:

Evaluation of sentences

• WER:
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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
• I changed how the focus marker worked, such that it was a lexicon rather than being hard-coded. This also meant that the verbs which take focus markers now get them.

  Old output: ^そぅだてぃどぅ/*そぅだてぃどぅ$

  New output: ^そぅだてぃどぅ/そぅだてぃ<v><cvb_abs><foc>$