Kazakh and Sakha/GSoC2018 report

This page serves as a summary of all the work done in the Kazakh and Sakha pair during Google Summer of Code 2018. The project consisted mainly of building a bilingual bidix and enriching the Sakha morphological analyzer.

Commits

My commits can be found here. You can also download my work as a zip file.

Corpora and Coverage

Our corpora were Kazakh Wikipedia and Sakha Wikipedia articles.

Mostly work consisted of adding stems to dictionaries. Stems were added from frequency lists.

30 April - 6 July

Stems were added to the Kazakh-Sakha bilingual dictionary.

7 July - 14 August

We focused on the Sakha morphological analyser to achieve 90% coverage. Stems were added, grammatical reference[1] was reviewed and test files were created.

Translator coverage

Corpus	Words	Stems before	Stems after	Coverage before	Coverage after
Wikipedia	10000	150	2870	29.36%	70.57%

Sakha morphological analyser coverage

Corpus	Words	Stems before	Stems after	Coverage before	Coverage after
Wikipedia	95654	4070	9015	73.16%	88.75%

References

• Ubryatova, E.I. (Ed.) (1982), Grammatika sovremennogo yakutskogo literaturnogo yazika, Moscow.
• SakhaTyla.Ru - Sakha Dictionary
• Казахско-русский словарь
• Online dictionary

Future work

• Add more stems to Sakha monolingual dictionary
• Add more stems to Kazakh-Sakha bilingual dictionary
• Add transfer rules, etc.