The translation appears here.
Translations come first from the Nation’s own translation memory and dictionary, checked by speakers; then from the Nation’s grammar engine, which reads and builds words by the rules of the Nation’s own sources and says where each comes from. Where none of these has the whole answer, a machine draft is composed from them and marked as a draft. Anything not from the memory or the dictionary can be wrong, so check it with a fluent speaker before you rely on it. Your suggestions go to the Nation’s speakers, and only a speaker’s acceptance puts one into use. What is sent here stays the Nation’s; it is not used to train anyone’s models.
How good is it, and whose is it?
The translator is measured, not praised. Sentence pairs held out for testing are translated both ways without the memory knowing them, and each answer is scored against a speaker’s translation by chrF, the character-level score used in research on languages with little web text. On the published benchmark for such languages the best systems scored about 45 and a human learner 52 to 57; higher is better.
No measured run yet.
Whose it is. The words, sentences and recordings gathered here belong to the Mohawk Nation of Grand River and to the speakers who gave them. They are held by the Nation’s Register for one purpose: the life of Kanien’kéha among the Nation’s people. They may be used to teach, to translate and to make tools for the Nation and its communities. They may not be used to train models or build products outside the Nation’s control, to surveil or profile anyone, or for any end that does not serve the language and its speakers. Every speaker is credited, and may withdraw what they gave. The Nation may share the data with other Kanien’kehá:ka communities on the same terms. (A draft, for the Attorney General of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River.)
