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* <s>Fix multiword verbs in bilingual dictionary -- and add ones non-existent in English dictionary to that dictionary</s> |
* <s>Fix multiword verbs in bilingual dictionary -- and add ones non-existent in English dictionary to that dictionary</s> |
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* Remove items which are in English dictionary but not Welsh/Bilingual |
* Remove items which are in English dictionary but not Welsh/Bilingual |
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* Fix verb conjugation in the Welsh analyser |
* <s>Fix verb conjugation in the Welsh analyser</s> |
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* Add restrictions in the bidix |
* <s>Add restrictions in the bidix</s> |
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* Fix numbers |
* Fix numbers |
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* <s>Add adverbs</s> |
* <s>Add adverbs</s> |
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* More thorough handling of contractions (i'ch, a'u, ...) — including preblank |
* <s>More thorough handling of contractions (i'ch, a'u, ...) — including preblank</s> |
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* Add pre-verbal particles |
* <s>Add pre-verbal particles (basic functionality)</s> |
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* Add adjective macro to all chunks |
* Add adjective macro to all chunks |
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* To be able to identify ''who'' said ''what'' to ''who''. |
* To be able to identify ''who'' said ''what'' to ''who''. |
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* To be able to distinguish is a particular item is interesting enough to be translated properly. |
* To be able to distinguish is a particular item is interesting enough to be translated properly. |
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* Sentences of up to 5 words should be translated reasonably well |
* Sentences of up to 5 words should be translated reasonably well from Welsh to English. |
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;Report |
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* Coverage: |
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** Wikipedia (753,741 words): 85.5% |
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** PNAW (11,684,177 words): 94% |
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** BBC Newyddion (144,887 words): 91% |
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===apertium-cy-en 0.2=== |
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== Tagger == |
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* 0.1 performance and coverage for English to Welsh. |
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Tagger needs to be retrained to take into account new POS, e.g. "relative pronoun", "adverb" |
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===="i" as preposition==== |
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Ambiguity: <code>^i/i<pr>/prpers<prn><subj><p1><mf><sg>$ ^foderneiddio/moderneiddio<vblex><inf>/moderneiddio<vblex><prs><p3><sg>$</code> |
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* Properly capitalised sentences. |
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Welsh "i" (to) is getting translated as "[f]i" (I, me). |
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* Get the number for nouns from the appropriate place. e.g. sometimes from the det, sometimes from the noun. |
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if Welsh "i" occurs immediately after a verb marked as 1p sing |
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output pronoun 1p sing |
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otherwise output preposition "to" |
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===="o'n" - disambiguate "he" and "from"==== |
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; mae fo'n mynd -> he isgoing |
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Fine (apart from the missing space). |
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Contrast: |
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; mae o'n mynd -> *is ofgoing - he is going |
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The elided form "o" is more common here than "fo". Following the 1.3.4 pattern above: |
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if Welsh "o" occurs immediately after a verb marked as 3p sing |
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output pronoun 3p sing |
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otherwise output preposition "of/from" |
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This is probably better than the earlier version I had here: |
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For Welsh pattern "verb + o" |
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output "verb + 3p sing pronoun" |
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====Preferential choice between verbforms==== |
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; bydd y lamp yn rhoi golau -> *are the lamp giving light - the lamp will be giving light |
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: (and presumably we could massage this into "the lamp will give light" later, since that would be the more natural English equivalent) |
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A couple of things here. The most important is that tagger chooses the less frequent imperative out of the imperative/future choice for the verb. Presumably this then means that the subject shift can't take place. But even with the imperative choice, the imperative 2p sing info gets lost between interchunk and postchunk, and replaced with a generic? present which gets output as "are". Odd. |
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* Handling of gender and number in adjectives |
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(I'm assuming that "bydd" would get output as "will be", since that would be the correct English tense.) |
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== Transfer == |
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[[Category:Discussions]] |
[[Category:Discussions]] |
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[[Category:Language pairs]] |
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[[Category:Welsh to English]] |
[[Category:Welsh to English]] |
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Latest revision as of 13:24, 10 December 2010
Todo[edit]
Fix multiword verbs in bilingual dictionary -- and add ones non-existent in English dictionary to that dictionary- Remove items which are in English dictionary but not Welsh/Bilingual
Fix verb conjugation in the Welsh analyserAdd restrictions in the bidix- Fix numbers
Add adverbsMore thorough handling of contractions (i'ch, a'u, ...) — including preblankAdd pre-verbal particles (basic functionality)- Add adjective macro to all chunks
Roadmap[edit]
apertium-cy-en 0.1[edit]
- 8,000 of the highest frequency words in each dictionary.
- Rules dealing with basic verb tenses (past, present, future)
- Basic word re-ordering for simple phrases.
- Aims and uses
- For a non-native speaker to be able to discern the topic of a general news item.
- To be able to identify who said what to who.
- To be able to distinguish is a particular item is interesting enough to be translated properly.
- Sentences of up to 5 words should be translated reasonably well from Welsh to English.
- Report
- Coverage:
- Wikipedia (753,741 words): 85.5%
- PNAW (11,684,177 words): 94%
- BBC Newyddion (144,887 words): 91%
apertium-cy-en 0.2[edit]
- 0.1 performance and coverage for English to Welsh.
apertium-cy-en 0.5[edit]
- Properly capitalised sentences.
- Get the number for nouns from the appropriate place. e.g. sometimes from the det, sometimes from the noun.
apertium-cy-en 1.0[edit]
- Handling of gender and number in adjectives
