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- Superintelligent machine translation
- Writing differences between Corsican and Gallurese
- What are the conditions for a given endangered language to be a candidate for rule-based machine translation?
- Quandu da la forza à la raghjoni cuntrasta Tandu vinci la forza è la raghjoni ùn basta
- How rule-based and statistical machine translation can help each other
- Why rule-based translation is (presently) best suited to endangered languages
- Rough typology of remaining errors
- Enhancing French to Italian translation
- Very first draft on French to Italian
- Improvement in grammatical structures: another 100% hit
- Percentage of ambiguous words in French sentence (from French to Corsican translation perspective)
- Disambiguation of two consecutive ambiguous words: ‘plusieurs mois’
- Disambiguation of ‘vie’
- A virsioni 1.1 hè dispunibuli
- Light version 1.1 is available
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A jeweler examines an emerald. "Aha," he says, "another green emerald. In all my years in this business, I must have seen thousands of emeralds, and every one has been green." We think the jeweler reasonable to hypothesize that all emeralds are green. Next door is another jeweler having equally comprehensive experience with emeralds. He speaks only the Choctaw Indian language. Color distinctions are not as universal as might be thought. The Choctaw Indians made no distinction between green and blue—the same words applied to both. The Choctaws did make a linguistic distinction between okchamali, a vivid green or blue, and okchakko, a pale green or blue. The Choctaw-speaking jeweler says: All emeralds are okchamali. He maintains that all his years in the jewelry business confirm this hypothesis. (William Poundstone, Labyrinths of reason)
Corsican language
The Corsican language is currently considered by Unesco as a "definitely endangered language". This site's aim is to help reviving the Corsican language by providing translation into Corsican. It translates French and Italian into one of the three main Corsican variants: 'cismuntincu', 'sartinesu' or 'taravesu'.
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Writing differences between Corsican and Gallurese
Here are some writing differences between Corsican and Sardinian gallurese, that result from historical writing habits. These writing differences prevail, even when the words are the same: ghj is replaced by gghj: acciaghju (corsu), acciagghju (gallurese) , steel chj is … Continue reading
How rule-based and statistical machine translation can help each other
Here are a few suggestions on how rule-based and statistical machine translation can help each other: (This is a follow-up to the previous post) to begin with, rule-based and statistical machine translation are often contrasted and compared: it would be … Continue reading
Rough typology of remaining errors
French to Corsican: performing on French wikipedia sample test currently amounts to 93% on average. Below is a rough typology of remaining errors (presumably an average of 95% performance should be attainable on the basis of correction of ‘easy’ tagged errors): … Continue reading
Download Light version for Windows
Download the light version 1.1 for Windows of OKCHAKKO TRANSLATOR French to Corsican (cismuntincu-sartinesu-taravesu) for Windows (R) version 1.1 translates French into one of the three main variants of Corsican language (cismuntincu, sartinesu, or taravesu)
A first 100%!
Now scoring 1 – 0/124 = 100%. Translated into Corsican ‘sartinesu’. Another Feigenbaum hit.
French ‘fin’ followed by a year number: fixed
Tagger improvement: fixed this issue. French ‘l’Empire allemand’ now translates properly into l’Imperu alimanu (the German Empire). French word ‘fin’ is now identified as a preposition when followed by a year number. The above excerpt is translated into the ‘sartinesu’ … Continue reading
Translation of preposition ‘à’ followed by noun phrase denoting a location
‘au stade de Wembley’ (at the Wembley Stadium) should translate in u stadiu di Wembley. We face the issue of the translation of preposition ‘à’ since ‘au’ is short for ‘à le’ (to the), in particular when ‘à’ is followed … Continue reading
Accordance of past participe
Now scoring 1 – 2/129 = 98.44%. The issue of past participe’s accordance again: ‘une session du parlement tenue à Nuremberg’ (a session of the Parliament held in Nuremberg) should translate into una sessione di u parlamentu tenuta in Nuremberg. … Continue reading
Past participe or present simple: the disambiguation of French ‘construit’
In the present case, it should read, custruitu à u seculu XII (built in the 12th century). The error relates to the disambiguation of French ‘construit’. It can translate into: custruitu (built): past participe, masculine, singular custruisce (builds): present simple, … Continue reading
The disambiguation of French ‘fils’ again: scoring 98.42%
Scoring 1 – 2/127 = 98.42%. Of interest: ‘de 839 à sa mort’ (from 839 to his death) should read: da u 839 à a so morte. French ‘de’ translates either into di or into da in Corsican language (to … Continue reading