What is the average percentage of ambiguous words in a French sentence (from a French to Corsican translation perspective). In the above example, this percentage amounts to 20/99 words = approximately 20%. Not all semantic ambiguities are taken into account here, so the real average should amount at least to 25%. le = u/lu: definite article or […]

Testing improved disambiguation engine. This is a special case of disambiguation of two consecutive ambiguous words. French ‘au terme de plusieurs mois’ translates into à u capu di parechji mesa (at the end of several months) in Corsican (taravese variant).  In this case, ‘plusieurs’ and ‘mois’ are ambiguous: ‘plusieurs’ (several) as an indefinite plural pronoun […]

We face here a special case of disambiguation: ‘un général byzantin du vie siècle’ (a Byzantine general of the sixth century) should translate: un generali bizantinu di u 6esimu seculu. French ‘vie’ is ambiguous between vita and 6esimu or VIesimu (life/sixth). In effect, ‘vi’ is sometimes used for the roman numeral ‘VI’. In this case, ‘VIe’ is […]