Tatar and Russian

This is a language pair translating from Tatar to Russian. The pair is currently located in nursery.

Current state

Last updated	Testvoc (clean or not)	Corpus testvoc (no *, no */@, no */@/#)	Stems in bidix	WER, PER on dev. corpus	Average WER, PER on unseen texts
13/03/2015	No	news(86.3, 86.3, 82.3) wp(83.0, 83.0, 80.0) Quran(85.4, 85.4, 82.3) NT(83.0, 83.0, 80.0) aytmatov(90.1, 90.1 88.3)	5973	74.92%, 58.06%	--

• Testvoc = apertium-tat-rus/testvoc/standard/testvoc.sh
• Corpus testvoc = apertium-tat-rus/testvoc/corpus/trimmed-coverage.sh. Corpora can be found in the turkiccorpora repository.
  • news = tat.news.2005-2011_300K-sentences.txt.bz2, wp = tat.wikipedia.2013-02-25.txt.bz2, NT = tat.NT.txt.bz2. Others are unambiguous.
• Number of stems taken from the header "aperium-dixtools format-1line 10 55 apertium-tat-rus.tat-rus.dix" produces.
• Development corpus = apertium-tat-rus/corpus (-test = tat-rus-nova.txt, -ref = tat-rus-posted.txt). WER / PER results are given when unknown-word marks (stars) are not removed.

Installation

You will need HFST, lttoolbox, vislcg3, apertium and apertium-lex-tools installed on your computer to be able to compile and use apertium-tat-rus.

If you are using a Debian-based distro, the easiest way to get those dependencies is to install them with apt-get from User:Tino Didriksen's repository.

If you are using the Apertium VirtualBox image, all those tools will be already installed.

Apertium-tat-rus fetches morphological transducers and CG-disambiguators of Tatar and Russian from the apertium-tat and apertium-rus directories in the /languages module. So you have to check out and compile these two monolingual packages first:

mkdir languages
cd languages
svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/languages/apertium-tat/
cd apertium-tat
./autogen.sh
make
cd ..

svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/languages/apertium-rus/
cd apertium-rus
./autogen.sh
make
cd ../..

After you're done with that, you have to check out and compile apertium-tat-rus itself, specifying where monolingual packages you've just compiled are located:

mkdir nursery
cd nursery
svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/nursery/apertium-tat-rus/
cd apertium-tat-rus
./autogen.sh --with-lang1=../../languages/apertium-tat/ --with-lang2=../../languages/apertium-rus/
make

You can test the translator now:

echo "Мин китап укыйм." | apertium -d . tat-rus
Я читаю книгу.

cd ../..
mkdir trunk
cd trunk
svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/trunk/apertium-eval-translator/
cd ..
cd nursery/apertium-tat-rus
./qa

./qa runs the whole regression test suite. It requires apertium-eval-translator.pl script from trunk and assumes that your directory structure follows that of the apertium repository:

                        ..
         /                   |                 \
    languages             nursery             trunk
    /        \                \                  |
apertium-tat  apertium-rus  apertium-tat-rus  apertium-eval-translator

Workplan (GSoC 2014)

This is a workplan for development efforts for the Tatar to Russian translator in Google Summer of Code 2014.

Major goals

• Clean testvoc
• 10000 top stems in bidix and at least 80% trimmed coverage
• Constraint grammar of Tatar containing at least 1000 rules, which makes 90-95% of all words unambiguous, with at least 95% retaining the correct analysis.
• Average WER on unseen texts below 50

Overview

Weeks 1-6		Weeks 7-12		Saturdays
get categor(y/ies) testvoc clean with one word ->	<- add more stems to categor(y/ies) while preserving testvoc clean	disambiguation	lexical selection	adding stems & cleaning testvoc
transfer rules for pending wiki tests (focus on phrases and clauses, not single words)

Weekly schedule

Week	Dates	Target			Achieved		Evaluation	Notes
		Testvoc (category, type)	Stems		Testvoc clean?	Stems
1	19/05—25/05	Nouns, lite	--		✓	236	--
2	26/05—01/06	Adjectives, lite	All nouns from tat.lexc		✓	2141	--	Not all nouns were added. Around 500 are pending. They require adding stems to rus.dix as well.
3	02/06—08/06	Verbs, lite	4106		95.27%	3258	--	Adjectives, verbs added. Some more pending in apertium-rus/dev/to_[add/check].txt
4	09/06—15/06	Adverbs, full	6071		✓	5331	--	Adverbs clean when I comment out everything except adverbs in Root lexicon. 96% if I don't. Probably something else gets translated with adverb(s).
5	16/06—22/06	Numerals, full	8036		✓	5488	--
6	23/06—29/06	Pronouns, full	10000				1. 500 words x 2 2. Try out assimilation evaluation toolkit if it's usable by that time.	Midterm evaluation Results when unknown word-marks (stars) are not removed tat-rus/texts/text1.* (full coverage): WER 66.73%, PER 56.48% tat-rus/texts/text2.* (not fully covered): WER 78.42%, PER 63.58%
7	30/06—06/07	Manually disambiguate a Tatar corpus (in a way so that it will be usable in the cg3ide later)			✓		--	See apertium-tat/texts/corpus.ana.txt
8	07/07—13/07	Corpus testvoc clean on all of the available corpora			✗		--	Difference between error-free coverage of the analyser and error-free coverage of the full translator is between 1.6% and 4% (see stats above).
9	14/07—20/07
10	21/07—27/07
11	28/07—03/08
12	04/08—10/08	Write Constraint Grammar for Tatar					--
13	11/08—18/08	All categories, full	10000				Gisting	Final evaluation

• Testvoc-lite (apertium-tat-rus/testvoc/lite$ ./testvoc.sh) for a category means taking one word per each sub-category and making the full paradigm of the word pass through the translator without debug symbols. E.g. "testvoc-lite for nouns clean" means that if we leave only one word in each of the N1, N-COMPOUND-PX etc. lexicons, they will pass through translator without [@#] errors.
• Till midterm, bilingual dictionary and, if necessary, Russian transducer are expanded with translations of stems taken from apertium-tat.tat.lexc.
• Evaluation (except for gisting evaluation) is taking $n$ words and performing an evaluation for post-edition word error rate (WER). The output for those $n$ words should be clean.

See also

• Pending tests
• Regression tests
• Stats