Machine translation from Catalan to Sardinian: a translation tool for a language in the process of standardisation

Machine translation from Catalan to Sardinian: a translation tool for a language in the process of standardisation

This article describes the development of a free/open-source rule-based machine translation system for Catalan to Sardinian based on the Apertium platform. Special attention is given to the components of the system related with transfer (structural and lexical) and lexical selection, drawing attenti...

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Published in:Linguamática (Braga, Portugal) Vol. 9; no. 2
Main Authors: Gianfranco Fronteddu, Hèctor Alòs i Font, Francis M. Tyers
Format: Journal Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universidade do Minho & Universidade de Vigo 01-12-2017
Subjects:
Apertium
català
rbmt
sard
traducció automàtica
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Summary:This article describes the development of a free/open-source rule-based machine translation system for Catalan to Sardinian based on the Apertium platform. Special attention is given to the components of the system related with transfer (structural and lexical) and lexical selection, drawing attention to issues stemming from the current state of the Sardinian written norm. The system has a word-error rate (WER) of 20.5% and a position-independent word-error rate (PER) of 13.9%. We analyse the remaining errors by doing a qualitative analysis of the translation of four articles from the encyclopaedic domain.
ISSN:1647-0818
DOI:10.21814/lm.9.2.255