Difference between revisions of "Biak/Final project"

Revision as of 11:04, 20 May 2021

Additions

• Inalienable Possession
  • Expanded contrastive grammar page to add more tests
  • Added inalienable stems to the multilingual dictionary
  • Added structural transfer rule
• Alienable Possession
  • Expanded structural transfer rule, signifying possession through "'s" or a possessive pronoun depending on the sentence with the presence of the alienable possession form.
• Interjections
  • Added support for standalone filler words as well as filler letters added to the end of words such as e, u, etc.
  • Added disambiguation rule to differentiate article and verb ambiguation that arose as a result of interjection pattern.
• Adjectives - exist only as verbs in Biak
  • Used .lsx file to resolve verbs that exist as "be" + adj
• Nouns with multiword meanings
  • Used .lsx file to differentiate between the adjective and noun part of the word, such as in the case of "old woman"
• Plurals
  • In Biak, nouns are edited by the conjugation of the verb. Used structural transfer to added plurality to the English noun based on the number of the verb.
• Subject pronoun inference
  • Standalone verbs in Biak imply the presence of a subject pronoun. Added structural transfer rule that supports this pattern.
• Differentiating subject/object pronouns
  • Using verb placement, can determine the correct English tagging of pronouns
• Complex articles/demonstratives
  • Complex articles in Biak can contain specificity and adverbs, used structural transfer to handle different cases, and correctly order terms.

Code

Evaluation

Moving Forward

• Anaphora resolution for pronouns
• Extending morphology for transducer--e.g., full/partial reduplication
• Working with community
  • Future direction based on community needs and wants in terms of computational linguistic tools
  • Evaluation of current tools, ensuring that our tools our an accurate representative of the language
• Expanding dictionary