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Resources for machine translation between [https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Fijian Fijian] and English
 
Resources for machine translation between [https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Fijian Fijian] and English
 
==fij → eng evaluation==
 
==fij → eng evaluation==
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Current WER and PER without having pronouns in the dictionary:
 
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Test file: 'fij-eng.tests.txt'
 
Test file: 'fij-eng.tests.txt'

Revision as of 20:47, 1 April 2018

Resources for machine translation between Fijian and English

fij → eng evaluation

Current WER and PER without having pronouns in the dictionary:

Test file: 'fij-eng.tests.txt'
Reference file 'eng.tests.txt'

Statistics about input files
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Number of words in reference: 57
Number of words in test: 59
Number of unknown words (marked with a star) in test: 18
Percentage of unknown words: 30.51 %

Results when removing unknown-word marks (stars)
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Edit distance: 51
Word error rate (WER): 89.47 %
Number of position-independent correct words: 12
Position-independent word error rate (PER): 82.46 %

Results when unknown-word marks (stars) are not removed
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Edit distance: 51
Word Error Rate (WER): 89.47 %
Number of position-independent correct words: 12
Position-independent word error rate (PER): 82.46 %

Statistics about the translation of unknown words
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Number of unknown words which were free rides: 0
Percentage of unknown words that were free rides: 0.00 %

eng → fij evaluation

Lexical Selection

eng → fij one-to-many mapping

  • Case 1: Pelu and lo’i describe two different kinds of bending action.

(eng) bend → (fij) pelu (e.g. bend of metal)

(eng) bend → (fij) lo’i (e.g. bend at a joint)

  • Case 2: The third person singular pronoun in English does not distinguish between nominative and accusative case.

(eng) it → (fij) e (subj)

(eng) it → (fij) koya (obj)

fij → eng one-to-many mapping

  • Case 1: The word levu can be used either as an adjective meaning "big", or a verb meaning "be a lot".

(fij) levu → (eng) big (adj)

(fij) levu → (eng) be a lot (v)

  • Case2: Fijian does not distinguish genders on pronouns.

(fij) koya → (eng) him

(fij) koya → (eng) her

(fij) koya → (eng) it

Contrastive Grammar

https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Fijian_and_English/Contrastive_Grammar

Developed Resources for Machine Translation

https://github.swarthmore.edu/hwang11/ling073-fij-eng