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The Nunavut Hansard Inuktitut–English Parallel Corpus 3.0 with preliminary machine translation results

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Alternative titleLe corpus parallèle inuktitut – anglais du Hansard du Nunavut 3.0 avec résultats préliminaires de traduction automatique
ᓄᑖᑦ ᓄᐊᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᒐᕙᒪᖓᑦᑕ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖏᓐᓂᙶᖅᑐᑦ, ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑑᖅᑐᑦ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑑᓕᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑲᑎᙵᓪᓗᑎᒃ - ᐊᒻᒪ ᖃᕋᓴᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᑐᑭᓕᐅᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑐᑦ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑐᓪᓗ ᖃᓄᐃᒻᒪᖔᑕ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᔾᔪᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. Digital Technologies
  2. US Army Research Laboratory
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ConferenceLREC 2020
SubjectInuktitut; SMT; NMT; sentence alignment; machine translation for polysynthetic languages; Indigenous languages; ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓪᓗᐊᑕᑦ: ᒪᕐᕉᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓰᒃ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ-ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖏᑦ ᓄᐊᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦ; ᖃᕋᓴᐅᔭᒃᑐᑦ ᑐᑭᓕᐅᕆᓂᖅ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᓪᓗ; ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᖓᑦᑕ ᐊᐅᓚᑕᐅᓂᖏᑦ
Abstract
The Inuktitut language, a member of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family, is spoken across Arctic Canada and noted for its morphological complexity. It is an official language of two territories, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, and has recognition in additional regions. This paper describes a newly released sentence-aligned Inuktitut–English corpus based on the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, covering sessions from April 1999 to June 2017. With approximately 1.3 million aligned sentence pairs, this is, to our knowledge, the largest parallel corpus of a polysynthetic language or an Indigenous language of the Americas released to date. The paper describes the alignment methodology used, the evaluation of the alignments, and preliminary experiments on statistical and neural machine translation (SMT and NMT) between Inuktitut and English, in both directions.

ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ, ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ-ᔪᐱᒃ-ᐅᓇᖓᓐ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖓᓐᓄᑦ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᔪᖅ ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᖓᓂ ᐊᔾᔨᐅᙱᖦᖢᓂᓗ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᕐᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓰᑦ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦᑕ ᑐᑭᖏᑦ ᑐᑭᕋᓛᖃᐅᕐᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ. ᐃᓕᓴᕆᔭᐅᓯᒪᓪᓗᓂ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᔪᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᕗᒻᒥᓗ, ᐊᒻᒪ ᒪᓕᒐᖅᑎᒍᑦ ᐃᓕᓴᕆᔭᐅᓂᖃᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᓂ ᐊᓯᖏᓐᓂ ᓄᓇᓂ. ᑖᓐᓇ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᔭᐃᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᓄᑖᓂᒃ ᓄᐊᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᓂᒃ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑑᓕᖅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ, ᑕᒪᕐᒥᒃ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑑᓕᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓪᓗ ᓇᓪᓕᕇᒃᖢᑎᒃ. ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓰᖕᓂᒃ ᐊᑐᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᓄᐊᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᖓᑦᑕ ᐊᐅᓚᓂᖓᓂᙶᖅᑐᑦ, ᑲᑎᒪᓂᖏᓐᓂᑦ ᐄᐳᕈ 1999-ᒥᑦ ᔫᓂ 2017-ᒧᑦ. 1.3 ᒥᓕᐊᓐᑲᓴᖕᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᓂᒃ ᑲᑎᖅᓱᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ, ᐊᑐᓂ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑑᖅᑐᑦ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑑᓕᖅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓪᓗ ᓇᓪᓕᕇᒃᖢᑎᒃ, ᑕᒪᓐᓇ, ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᑦᑎᒍᑦ, ᐊᖏᓂᖅᐸᐅᔪᖅ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓰᖕᓂᒃ ᓇᓪᓕᕇᓕᖅᑎᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᓄᐊᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖏᓐᓂᑦ ᐊᒥᐊᓕᑲᒦᑦᑐᓂᑦ ᒫᓐᓇᒧᑦ ᑎᑭᖦᖢᒍ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐊᖏᓂᖅᐸᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᓄᐊᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᐅᑉ ᐱᖃᑖ - ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ - ᐊᔪᕐᓇᖅᑐᒻᒪᕆᖕᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᐅᓲᖑᖕᒪᑕ. ᑖᓐᓇ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᔪᖅ ᖃᓄᖅ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑐᓪᓗ ᓴᓪᓕᕇᓕᖅᑎᓯᒪᖕᒪᖔᑕ, ᖃᓄᖅ ᑕᒪᕐᒥᑲᓴᖅ ᐅᖃᐅᓰᑦ ᓇᓪᓕᕇᓕᖅᑎᓯᒪᑦᑎᐊᕐᒪᖔᑕ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᖅᑕᐅᕐᖓᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᒪᕐᕉᖕᓂᒃ ᖃᕋᓴᐅᔭᓕᕆᔾᔪᑏᖕᓂᒃ ᐊᑐᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᑐᑭᓕᐅᕆᔾᔪᑎᓂᒃ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑑᖅᑐᓂᑦ ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑎᑑᓕᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑭᐳᒻᒧᓪᓗ.
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  • Joanis, Eric, Rebecca Knowles, Roland Kuhn, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Darlene Stewart, and Jeffrey Micher. ‘The Nunavut Hansard Inuktitut–English Parallel Corpus 3.0’. National Research Council of Canada, 23 January 2020. https://doi.org/10.4224/40001819.
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