A North Saami to South Saami Machine Translation Prototype
The paper describes a rule-based machine translation (MT) system from North to South Saami. The system is designed for a workflow where North Saami functions as pivot language in translation from Norwegian or Swedish. We envisage manual translation from Norwegian or Swedish to North Saami, and there...
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ftlinkoepuojs:oai:ojs.bibl.liu.se:article/1659 2023-05-15T18:08:04+02:00 A North Saami to South Saami Machine Translation Prototype Antonsen, Lene Trosterud, Trond Tyers, Francis M. 2016-03-13 application/pdf https://nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view/1659 https://doi.org/10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.1642 eng eng Linköping University Electronic Press https://nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view/1659/1004 https://nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view/1659 doi:10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.1642 Copyright (c) 2016 Lene Antonsen , Trond Trosterud, Francis M. Tyers https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 CC-BY-NC Northern European Journal of Language Technology; Vol. 4 (2016): Special Issue on Uralic Languages; 11-27 Northern European Journal of Language Technology; Vol 4 (2016): Special Issue on Uralic Languages; 11-27 2000-1533 10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.164 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2016 ftlinkoepuojs https://doi.org/10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.1642 https://doi.org/10.3384/nejlt.2000-1533.164 2022-08-30T10:30:55Z The paper describes a rule-based machine translation (MT) system from North to South Saami. The system is designed for a workflow where North Saami functions as pivot language in translation from Norwegian or Swedish. We envisage manual translation from Norwegian or Swedish to North Saami, and thereafter MT to South Saami. The system was aimed at a single domain, that of texts for use in school administration. We evaluated the system in terms of the quality of translations for postediting. Two out of three of the Norwegian to South Saami professional translators found the output of the system to be useful. The evaluation shows that it is possible to make a functioning rule-based system with a small transfer lexicon and a small number of rules and achieve results that are useful for a restricted domain, even if there are substantial differences b etween the languages. Article in Journal/Newspaper saami Linköping University Electronic Press Pivot ENVELOPE(-30.239,-30.239,-80.667,-80.667) Northern European Journal of Language Technology 4 11 27 |
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The paper describes a rule-based machine translation (MT) system from North to South Saami. The system is designed for a workflow where North Saami functions as pivot language in translation from Norwegian or Swedish. We envisage manual translation from Norwegian or Swedish to North Saami, and thereafter MT to South Saami. The system was aimed at a single domain, that of texts for use in school administration. We evaluated the system in terms of the quality of translations for postediting. Two out of three of the Norwegian to South Saami professional translators found the output of the system to be useful. The evaluation shows that it is possible to make a functioning rule-based system with a small transfer lexicon and a small number of rules and achieve results that are useful for a restricted domain, even if there are substantial differences b etween the languages. |
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A North Saami to South Saami Machine Translation Prototype |
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