English - Luganda Parallel Corpus

Guy — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:31:48 +0000

A parallel corpus consists of the same text in two or more different languages. Word-alignment involves finding the links between the words in the two texts. A large word-aligned corpus can be used as source material for statistical machine translation techniques and knowledge transfer techniques.

On this page, you can download a small word-aligned parallel corpus Luganda - English. It consists of 150 manually annotated sentences of the gospel of Luke (1:1 until 3:18). The English text is the King James Bible and the Luganda text was taken from the on-line Luganda bible.

Needless to say this is a very modest-size corpus and cannot be used as the only dataset to bootstrap MT research. Its purpose however it to provide a gold-standard test set to evaluate and tune automatic word-alignment techniques for larger parallel corpora English-Luganda.
The files were made using the UMIACS Word Alignment Interface. To visualize the parallel corpus, you will need to download this software. Further data-processing can be done immediately on the output files:

Luke.tok: English text
Lukka.tok: Luganda text
aligned.1 ... aligned.150: a description of the word-alignment for each of the 150 sentences.

The annotation work was done By Edina Nalukenge in the context of the OCAPI project (University of Antwerp).

Luganda Dictionary

Guy — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:10:51 +0000

URL:

https://www.gandaancestry.com/dictionary/dictionary.php

Description:

An on-line English to Luganda translation dictionary

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