A dataset for the research project “ERROR ANALYSIS OF TIGRINYA–ENGLISH MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS”. In this project, we evaluated the status of three state-of-the-art MT systems that support the translation of Tigrinya to and from English: Google translate, Microsoft translator, and Lesan. Tigrinya is a language spoken by 10+ million people.
## ERROR ANALYSIS OF TIGRINYA–ENGLISH MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS
This is the dataset for the research project ERROR ANALYSIS OF TIGRINYA–ENGLISH MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS. In this project, we evaluated the status of three state-of-the-art MT systems that support the translation of Tigrinya to and from English: Google translate, Microsoft translator, and Lesan. Tigrinya is a language that is spoken by more than 10 million native speakers mainly in Tigray, Ethiopia and Eritrea. The details of the dataset are described below:
### Schema
- **Source:** This is the source url where the original data is scraped from. Typically takes a URL of a web resource as value but in some cases it could be page number of a textbook.
- **Domain:** refers to the area from which the text was gathered. The dataset reflects a diverse content. This feature can take one of the following values: Art and Culture, Business and Economy, Politics as well as Science and Technology.
- **SourceText:** is the source text given as input to the system for translation.
- **SourceLanguage:** the language of the source text. This takes values: English (en) or Tigrinya (ti).
- **TargetLanguage:** the language of the target translation output. This takes values: English (en) or Tigrinya (ti).
- **OutputGoogle:** text translation output from Google Translate.
- **EvalSentenceLevelGoogle:** sentence level evaluation of translation output from Google Translate.
- **EvalSnippetLevelGoogle:** snippet level evaluation of translation output from Google Translate.
- **ErrorTypeGoogle:** one or more Error type(s) according to MQM on translation output from Google Translate.
- **OutputMicrosoft:** translation output from Microsoft Translator.
- **EvalSentenceLevelMicrosoft:** sentence level evaluation of translation output from Microsoft Translator
- **EvalSnippetLevelMicrosoft:** snippet level evaluation of translation output from Microsoft Translator.
- **ErrorTypeMcirosoft:** One or more Error t …