| English-Afrikaans Translation of Siyavula Textbooks | |
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| Data | |
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| The data used for this English-Afrikaans MT system was compiled from content | |
| on the [Siyavula website](https://www.siyavula.com/read), specifically using | |
| the Grade 5 and 6 science textbooks with a licence which allows adaptations, | |
| [CC BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). | |
| If the data is further distributed or adapted, it needs to also be released | |
| under the same [CC BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) license, | |
| with credit to Siyavula for the content and Herman Kamper for the data | |
| compilation. | |
| The compiled and pre-processed data can be downloaded from: | |
| https://www.kamperh.com/data/siyavula_en_af.noweb.3.zip | |
| Changes to model | |
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| I made very limited changes to the setup from the original example codebook, | |
| apart from changing the batch sizes and some of the validation settings. | |
| Example input-output sentences | |
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| Example 1: | |
| Source: resources about water | |
| Reference: hulpbronne oor water | |
| Hypothesis: bronne van water | |
| Example 2: | |
| Source: what does it mean to purify water ? | |
| Reference: wat beteken dit om water te suiwer ? | |
| Hypothesis: wat beteken dit om water te suiwer ? | |
| Example 3: | |
| Source: it means to clean water; to remove pollutants from the water . | |
| Reference: om water te suiwer beteken om besoedeling uit water te verwyder . | |
| Hypothesis: dit beteken om skoon te skoon waterbesoedeling uit die water te verwyder . | |
| Example 4: | |
| Source: what is clean water ? | |
| Reference: wat is skoon water ? | |
| Hypothesis: wat is skoon ? | |
| Example 5: | |
| Source: try it out and see if this makes a difference . | |
| Reference: probeer dit en kyk of dit 'n verskil maak . | |
| Hypothesis: probeer dit op en kyk as 'n verskil is . | |
| Contributors | |
| ------------ | |
| - [Herman Kamper](http://www.kamperh.com/) | |