Adaptation of a Rule-Based Translator to Rio de la Plata Spanish

摘要

Pronominal and verbal voseo is a well-established variant in spoken language, and also very common in some written contexts -web sites, literary works, screenplays or subtitles - in Rio de la Plata Spanish. An implementation of Rio de la Plata Spanish (including voseo) was made in the open source collaborative system Apertium, whose design is suited for the development of new translation pairs. This work includes: development of a translation pair for Rio de la Plata Spanish- • English (back and forth), based on the Spanish-English pairs previously included in Apertium; creation of a bilingual corpus based on subtitles of movies; evaluation on this corpus of the developed Apertium variant by comparing it to the original Apertium version and to a statistical translator in the state of the art.