Central Kurdish and English/Lexical selection
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ckb → eng
There are several cases of one-to-many mappings of lexemes from Sorani Kurdish to English. The objective of this assignment is to be able to choose the correct mapping in different situations depending on the context a lexeme is used. In order to pick a default for each pair of translations, I cited the frequency distribution of English lemmae to get an idea of which one is more commonly used.
زمان → tongue, language
The word translates into "language" if the sentence contains the names of some other languages. The default translation is "tongue."
ژن → woman, wife
This is not a real solution; the default translation is just set as "woman" because it's more frequent.
بیر → (water) well, thought
The translation defaults to "thought" unless the word is close to "water" or "oil."