North Saami - South Saami

This page documents gt aspects of sme-sma machine translation.

Cf. also the Apertium page for sme-sma MT.

• Achieved so far: Presented a paper in Inari in September 2013.
• Made a demo (under mt/testing)
• Source files in Apertium

Apertium MT course

• 2015: December

Work plan

• Prerequisites
  • Install, compile and set up the existing smesma
  • Add the 3000-or-so new word pairs
  • Collect texts from relevant domains, make sme-sma wordlists from them
  • Make a missing transfer list and add words
  • contrast closed categories and defective paradigms - tlemma+tag – lemma+tag correspondences
  • harmonise and document tags
• Actual work
  • … translate - evaluate - fix lexicons - (re)write rules …
  • etc.

Documentation

• List of transferrules
• Compiling files for Apertium use

Evaluation

Questionnaire

translation analysis

Meetings

• 2013: Aug.12  // Aug.15  // Aug.28