Monthly Archives: January 2017

Semantic disambiguation of French ‘défense’

Posted on January 31, 2017 by pilinu

Semantical disambiguation is lurking: défense = difesa/sanna = defense/tusk It should read: L’avvucatu priparava a so difesa. A sanna di u cignale era tronca. A tazzina era sculpita in una sanna d’elefante.

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False positives

Posted on January 31, 2017 by pilinu

  There are sometimes false positives. Some words should remain untranslated, notably proper names. Interestingly, it is due to the fact that the english word ‘transport’ is the same in french: transport (fr) = transport (en) = trasportu (co).

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Proper noun elision

Posted on January 31, 2017 by pilinu

Testing #machine translation now facing new elision problem: Riventosa (fr) = A Riventosa(co) proper noun (fr) = definite article + proper noun (co) it should read: in u paese di A Riventosa (without elision) Elision rules are not trivial: le … Continue reading →

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Adjective accordance

Posted on January 31, 2017 by pilinu

Rule-based translation : adjective accordance : interesting stuff: sur les réseaux japonais et américain (fr) = annantu à e rete sgiappunesa è americana (co) = on the japanese and american networks (en) noun (networks) is plural but adjectives (japanese and american) are … Continue reading →

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Gender reversal

Posted on January 31, 2017 by pilinu

Now handling gender reversal: – mer (FR, feminine) = sea (EN) = mare (CO, masculine) – saveur (FR, feminine) = flavor (EN) = sapore (CO, masculine) – liqueur (FR, feminine) = liquor (EN) = licore (CO, masculine) ‘c’est une bonne liqueur’ … Continue reading →

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Verbal locutions

Posted on January 31, 2017 by pilinu

Introducing new feature for #MachineTranslation: some verbal locutions: prendre d’assaut = assaltà mettre à sac = sacchighjà prendre au collet = incappià

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Semantic disambiguation

Posted on January 31, 2017 by pilinu

Now considering the issue of Semantical disambiguation. Some instances For French to Corsican are: – ‘défense’ = sanna/difesa = tusk/defense – ‘vol’ = bulu/furtu = flight/theft – ‘comprend’ = capisce/cumprende = understands/comprises – ‘palais’ = palatu/palazzu = palate/palace – ‘expérience’ = … Continue reading →

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November 26, 2016: Now scoring 95.52%

Posted on January 31, 2017 by pilinu

Now scoring 1 – 6/134 = 95.52%. Lack of vocabulary ‘passacaile’. It should read: ‘versu u 1678‘, ‘di a so epica‘, ‘di u so tempu‘.

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