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==Documentation==
 
==Documentation==
[[Contrastive_Grammar]]<br/>
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==Developed Resources==
 
==Developed Resources==

Revision as of 12:11, 26 March 2017

This page is a resource for machine translation between Wamesa and Tongan.

wad → ton evaluation

On the tests file, 77.47% of the words translate correctly, and the unknown word rate is 28.57%. The WER and PER are both 71.43% when *'d words are removed, and 100% when not removing *'s.

ton → wad evaluation

Percentage of unknown words: 0%

Results when removing unknown word marks (stars) | WER: 100% PER: 100% Number of position-independent correct words: 1

Results when unknown word marks (stars) not removed | WER: 100% PER: 100%

  • There is still one bug that we are trying to fix. siʻaku is being translated to #<poss>, but it should translate to nothing as there is no equivalent in Wamesa. The percentages above are when the incorrect #<poss> is taken out of the ton-wad.tests.txt file. Otherwise, the percentage increases to 114.29%.

Lexical Selection

wad → ton

In Wamesa, the 3rd person plural is indicated by a morpheme, but in Tongan, it can appear as a few different words.

  • (wad) se- → ou (ton)
  • (wad) se- → kinautolu (ton)

Wamesa only has one word for sick, while Tongan has a few.

  • (wad) pota → puke (ton)
  • (wad) pota → ʻa (ton)

ton → wad

Tongan only has one word for to swim, while Wamesa has a few.

  • (ton) kakau → as (wad)
  • (ton) kakau → kubira (wad)

Tongan has one word for ocean, while Wamesa has a couple.

  • (ton) moana → sasi (wad)
  • (ton) moana → rawanam (wad)

Documentation

Contrastive Grammar

Developed Resources

ton-wad
wad-ton