Indonesian and Malaysian

This is a language pair translating between Indonesian and Malaysian.

Work plan

Week	Dates	Activities	Coverage reached (wp)	Evaluation	WER reached
0	23/04—21/05	Translating the story to get a baseline WER.	-	500 words	4.68%
1	21/05—27/05	Working on Indonesian analyzer/generator.	-	-	-
2	28/05—03/06	Working on Indonesian analyzer/generator. Translating Malaysian wikipedia articles to Indonesian to get a parallel corpus. Bilingual dictionaries will be extracted from the corpus.	72.9%, 29,9%	-	-
3	04/06—10/06	Translating Malaysian wikipedia articles to Indonesian. Working on Malaysian analyzer/generator.	, 46.4%	-	-
4	11/06—17/06	Working on Malaysian analyzer/generator and bidix.		-	-

Morphology

Verb-forming affixes

Affix	Function	Example	Segmentation	Lemma	Translation	Analysis
meN-	active voice	membaca	meN+baca	baca (v.read)	v.read	baca<vblex><actv>
di-	to be done by someone	dibaca	di+baca	baca (v.read)	read [by someone]	baca<vblex><di>
ber-	to convert noun to verb	berdiri	ber+diri	diri (n.self)	stand	diri<n><vblex><ber>
ber-R		bermain-main	ber+main+main	main (v.play)	playing around	main<vblex><ber><pl>
ber-an	reciprocal action	bertabrakan	ber+tabrak+an	tabrak (v.hit)	collide	tabrak<vblex><ber><an>
ber-R-an	reciprocal action	berpeluk-pelukkan	ber+peluk+peluk+kan	peluk (v.hug)	hugging each other	peluk<vblex><ber><pl><an>
ter-	unintentional action	termakan	ter+makan	makan (v.eat)	eaten (unintentionally)	makan<vblex><ter>
ter-R		terapung-apung	ter+apung+apung	apung (v.float)	float	apung<vblex><ter><pl>
meN-i		mendatangi	meN+datang+i	datang (v.come)	come (to a place)	datang<vblex><actv><i>
di-i	passive	didatangi	di+datang+i	datang (v.come)	visited	datang<vblex><di><i>
meN-kan	causative	mendatangkan	meN+datang+kan	datang (v.come)	make someone come	datang<vblex><actv><kan>
di-kan	causative, passive	didatangkan	di+datang+kan	datang (v.come)	imported	datang<vblex><di><kan>
memper-	to make less or more	memperbesar	meN+per+besar	besar (a.big)	make something bigger	besar<adj><vblex><actv><per>
diper-	to make less or more, passive	diperbesar	di+per+besar	besar (a.big)	made bigger	besar<vblex><di><per>
memper-kan	to change noun to transitive verb	mempertanyakan	meN+per+tanya+kan	tanya (n.question)	v.question	tanya<n><vblex><actv><per-kan>
diper-kan		dipertanyakan	di+per+tanya+kan	tanya (n.question)	questioned	tanya<n><vblex><di><per-kan>

Adjective formation

Affix	Function	Example	Segmentation	Lemma	Translation	Analysis
ter-	superlative	terbesar	ter+besar	besar (a.big)	biggest	besar<adj><ter>
se-	same	sebesar	se+besar	besar (a.big)	as big as	besar<adj><se>

Noun formation

Affix	Function	Example	Segmentation	Lemma	Translation	Analysis
-an	entity	tulisan	tulis+an	tulis (v.write)	writings	tulis<vblex><n><sg><an>
peN-	actor	penjual	peN+jual	jual (v.sell)	seller	jual<vblex><n><sg><peN>
ke-an	abstract	kepandaian	ke+pandai+an	pandai (a.intelligent)	intelligence	pandai<adj><n><sg><ke-an>
peN-an	process	pengiriman	pe+kirim+an	kirim (v.send)	delivery	kirim<vblex><n><sg><peN-an>
per-an	theme	pertokoan	per+toko+an	toko (n.store)	shopping centre	toko<n><sg><per-an>

See also

• Pending tests
• Previous Morphology

External links

• Wikipedia: Differences between Malaysian and Indonesian
• Malay grammar