Orthographic Reforms of Standard Malay Online: Towards Better Pronunciation and Construction of a Cross-language Environment

Rozan, Mohd Zaidi Abd; Mikami, Yoshiki

doi:10.22425/jul.2007.8.1.129

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“…While most of the studies on Malay dialects focus on the phonology aspect, less has been put on the studies of the other aspects, for instance the writing of the dialect speakers. The only exception is SM, where the orthography [21], morphology [22], and grammars are well documented. Malay dialects do not have a standardized orthography.…”

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Hybrid Distance-Statistical-Based Phrase Alignment for Analyzing Parallel Texts in Standard Malay and Malay Dialects

Yen Min,

Tan,

Malancon

2024

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Parallel texts corpora are essential resources in linguistics and natural language processing, especially in translation and multilingual information retrieval. The publicly available parallel text corpora are limited to certain genres, types and domains. Furthermore, the parallel dialect text is scarce, even though they are important in the analysis and study of a dialect. Collecting parallel dialect text is challenging because dialects typically appear in the form of speech and very limited dialectic texts exist. Moreover, there is no standard orthography in most dialects. The contributions of this paper are threefold. First, the paper describes a methodology in acquiring a parallel text corpus of Standard Malay and Malay dialects, particularly Kelantan Malay and Sarawak Malay. Second, we propose a hybrid of distance based and statistical-based alignment algorithm to align words and phrases the parallel text. The results show that the precision and recall values of the proposed alignment algorithm are more than 95% and better than the state-of the-art GIZA++. Third, the alignment obtained were compared to find out the lexical similarities and differences between Standard Malay and the two studied Malay dialects, contributing valuable insights into the linguistic variations within the Malay language family.

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