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contract: Weksa owns typed conversational intent, pronunciation plans, utterance
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contract: Weksa owns typed conversational intent, pronunciation plans, utterance
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handoffs, and the Eve/CultMesh surfaces that make those documents inspectable.
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handoffs, and the Eve/CultMesh surfaces that make those documents inspectable.
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See [Flavored English Lowering](./docs/flavored-english-lowering.md) for the
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See [Multilingual Utterance Lowering](./docs/multilingual-utterance-lowering.md)
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first lowering target: interlingua projected through agent state into English
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for the shared lowering target: interlingua projected through speaker state into
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dialogue.
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English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, and later target-language dialogue.
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[Flavored English Lowering](./docs/flavored-english-lowering.md) remains the
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target-specific English receipt.
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See [Target-Language Cultural Ontology Profiles](./data/target-language-ontology/README.md)
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for the reviewable address, register, politeness, idiom, metaphor, and script
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distinctions that target lowerers must inspect before producing output.
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For the first AquaSynth speech-training handoff, see
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For the first AquaSynth speech-training handoff, see
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[Tiny PanPhon v0.1 Speech Curriculum](./examples/speech-training/tiny-panphon-v0.1/README.md).
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[Tiny PanPhon v0.1 Speech Curriculum](./examples/speech-training/tiny-panphon-v0.1/README.md).
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# Target-Language Cultural Ontology Profiles
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These profiles describe culturally loaded realization choices for human target
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languages used by Weksa utterance lowering.
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They are not whole-culture summaries. They are bounded lowering profiles: the
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distinctions a target lowerer must inspect before producing dialogue.
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## Authority
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Target-language cultural ontology profiles own:
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- address and politeness distinctions
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- register and social stance pressures
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- agency, responsibility, and directness defaults
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- idiom and metaphor risks
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- script or orthographic choices that carry meaning
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- forbidden flattenings that would make the output dishonest
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They do not own:
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- source meaning
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- speaker-private state
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- target-language grammar as a whole
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- national or cultural stereotypes
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- final wording without an interlingua packet
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## Current Profiles
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- [English, US fixture default](./en-US.yaml)
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- [Brazilian Portuguese](./pt-BR.yaml)
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- [Brazilian Portuguese overlay catalog](./pt-BR-overlays.yaml)
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- [Brazilian Portuguese, Umbanda overlay](./pt-BR-umbanda.yaml)
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- [Japanese](./ja-JP.yaml)
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Each multilingual lowering fixture should cite the profile or profile stack it
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used so reviewers can tell which social and cultural distinctions were
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considered. Regional and religious-cultural options are overlays on a base
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language profile, not replacements for source meaning.
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profile_id: weksa.target_cultural_ontology.en-US.v0
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language:
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code: en
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locale: en-US
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script: Latn
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scope: >
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Bounded English dialogue lowering profile for current Weksa fixtures. This is
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not a claim about all English-speaking cultures.
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authority:
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owns:
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- address directness choices
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- casual versus formal register
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- technical metaphor legibility
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- understatement or sarcasm risk
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does_not_own:
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- source meaning
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- speaker identity
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- whole-culture description
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salience_axes:
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address:
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relevant_distinctions:
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- direct second person is acceptable when scene context names the addressee
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- imperative force can be softened or sharpened through wording
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lowering_questions:
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- Does direct address preserve the speech act?
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- Does softening erase urgency?
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register:
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relevant_distinctions:
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- casual
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- technical
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- formal
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- intimate
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- institutional
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lowering_questions:
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- Is technical language character pressure or exposition sludge?
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- Does sarcasm obscure the actual warning?
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agency:
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relevant_distinctions:
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- explicit agent responsibility is usually available
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- passive phrasing can hide authority or blame
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lowering_questions:
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- Should the speaker own the intervention directly?
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- Does the line preserve who is at risk?
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forbidden_flattenings:
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- Do not treat English as the neutral source for other target languages.
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- Do not use generic assistant politeness when a character voice is required.
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- Do not let sarcasm replace the actual predicate being lowered.
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profile_id: weksa.target_cultural_ontology.ja-JP.v0
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language:
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code: ja
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locale: ja-JP
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script: Jpan
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Bounded Japanese dialogue lowering profile for Weksa fixtures. This profile
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records realization distinctions that must be inspected; it is not a total
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description of Japanese culture.
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authority:
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- politeness and honorific pressure
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- in-group/out-group stance when context supplies it
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- subject and object omission choices
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- script mix and technical register
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- sentence-final force
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- source meaning
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- character identity
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- exhaustive Japanese grammar
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salience_axes:
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politeness:
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relevant_distinctions:
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- plain
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- humble
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- rough
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- Does politeness preserve the relationship, or does it lie about it?
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- Is roughness character-specific or generic stylization?
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social_position:
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relevant_distinctions:
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- uchi_soto_pressure
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- hierarchy
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- familiarity
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- emergency_override
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lowering_questions:
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- Does urgency override ordinary deference?
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- Does the line imply a relationship the scene has not earned?
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ellipsis:
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relevant_distinctions:
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- subject omission
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- object omission
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- explicit pronoun for emphasis or contrast
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- Is the addressee recoverable without an explicit pronoun?
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- Would explicit pronouns sound unnatural or too pointed?
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script_and_register:
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relevant_distinctions:
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- kanji for technical compounds
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- kana for softness or readability
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- katakana for foreignness, machine texture, or emphasis
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lowering_questions:
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- Does the script choice help the speaker voice?
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- Does a technical compound preserve precision without becoming stiff?
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relevant_distinctions:
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- direct request
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- warning consequence
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- command
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lowering_questions:
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- Does the ending carry warning force without cartoon aggression?
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- Does the line preserve the hazard predicate?
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- Do not treat politeness as decoration.
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- Do not use explicit pronouns just because English has them.
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- Do not make every sharp line rough or anime-coded.
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- Do not erase the difference between technical precision and formal politeness.
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base_profile: data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR.yaml
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Catalog of optional Brazilian Portuguese regional and cultural overlay slots.
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An overlay slot is not permission to imitate a community. It is a named place
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Use the broad pt-BR profile by default. Add an overlay only when source
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- overlay_id: broad_brazilian_default
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status: active_base_mode
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- Would mitigation make the warning dishonest?
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lexical_locale:
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relevant_distinctions:
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|
- Brazilian Portuguese terms should be preferred in reviewed pt-BR fixtures
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|
- European Portuguese defaults must be marked if intentionally used
|
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|
lowering_questions:
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|
- Is a term recognizably Brazilian Portuguese in this context?
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|
- Is a literal technical word natural enough for dialogue?
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|
regional_and_cultural_overlay:
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|
relevant_distinctions:
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- broad_brazilian_default
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- regional_speech_pattern
|
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|
- class_or_institutional_register
|
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|
- religious_or_ritual_register
|
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|
- community_specific_lexicon
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|
lowering_questions:
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|
- Does the source context justify an overlay?
|
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|
- Is the overlay owned by a named profile?
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|
- Would applying the overlay stereotype the speaker or setting?
|
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|
metaphor:
|
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|
relevant_distinctions:
|
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|
- technical metaphors can preserve character ontology
|
||||||
|
- over-literal metaphors may sound translated rather than spoken
|
||||||
|
lowering_questions:
|
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|
- Does the metaphor still sound like the speaker?
|
||||||
|
- Does it preserve the warning instead of becoming decorative?
|
||||||
|
forbidden_flattenings:
|
||||||
|
- Do not label output as Portuguese without a locale in reviewed fixtures.
|
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|
- Do not default to European Portuguese wording when the target is pt-BR.
|
||||||
|
- Do not treat Brazilian Portuguese as one culture, region, class, or religion.
|
||||||
|
- Do not add regional or religious markers without a cited overlay profile and source-context reason.
|
||||||
|
- Do not soften a warning merely because directness feels impolite in English review.
|
||||||
|
overlay_catalog: data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR-overlays.yaml
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190
docs/multilingual-utterance-lowering.md
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190
docs/multilingual-utterance-lowering.md
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# Multilingual Utterance Lowering
|
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|
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|
Version: `0.1-draft`
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|
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|
Weksa can lower one structured utterance intent into multiple human-language
|
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|
realizations without making English the hidden source of truth.
|
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|
|
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|
```text
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||||||
|
interlingua packet
|
||||||
|
-> projected speaker-local context
|
||||||
|
-> utterance lowering request
|
||||||
|
-> target-language realization packets
|
||||||
|
```
|
||||||
|
|
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|
The first targets are English, Brazilian Portuguese (`pt-BR`), and Japanese
|
||||||
|
(`ja`). These targets prove the middle of the machine before alien-language
|
||||||
|
rendering gets to hide failures under unfamiliar surface forms.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
## Objective
|
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|
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|
Produce target-language dialogue from a shared meaning packet while preserving:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- source referents and predications
|
||||||
|
- speaker-local knowledge boundaries
|
||||||
|
- target-language cultural ontology
|
||||||
|
- target-language register and obligatory expression
|
||||||
|
- traceability from output back to interlingua and projected context
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Authority
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The interlingua packet owns:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- what is meant
|
||||||
|
- referents, predications, relations, discourse, constraints, and provenance
|
||||||
|
- source-side uncertainty
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The projected speaker context owns:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- what the speaker knows, believes, remembers, wants, and can express
|
||||||
|
- voice pressure, relationship stance, embodiment, and presentation limits
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The utterance lowerer owns:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- selecting target-language surface text
|
||||||
|
- preserving required meaning and constraints
|
||||||
|
- obeying speaker-local context
|
||||||
|
- applying the target-language cultural ontology profile
|
||||||
|
- marking target-language register and realization choices
|
||||||
|
- emitting backglosses, backtranslations, and lowering trace
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The utterance lowerer does not own:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- new facts
|
||||||
|
- raw agent-state internals
|
||||||
|
- target-language alien forms
|
||||||
|
- speech synthesis
|
||||||
|
- phoneme parity or synth-control truth
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The target-language cultural ontology profile owns:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- address, politeness, register, and social stance distinctions
|
||||||
|
- idiom and metaphor risks
|
||||||
|
- script or orthographic choices that carry meaning
|
||||||
|
- forbidden flattenings for that target
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It does not own source meaning. It tells the lowerer what distinctions must be
|
||||||
|
inspected before surface text is chosen.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Target Languages
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### English
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
English remains a lowering target, not the pivot language. Existing flavored
|
||||||
|
English fixtures continue to be useful, but new multilingual fixtures should
|
||||||
|
show English as one realization in a set.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The initial cultural ontology profile is
|
||||||
|
`data/target-language-ontology/en-US.yaml`.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Brazilian Portuguese
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Portuguese must be explicit about locale. The initial target is `pt-BR`, not a
|
||||||
|
generic Portuguese bucket.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The target lowerer should record:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `locale: pt-BR`
|
||||||
|
- target cultural ontology profile stack used
|
||||||
|
- treatment choice where relevant
|
||||||
|
- whether dialogue uses direct or softened imperatives
|
||||||
|
- idiom choices that are Brazilian Portuguese rather than European Portuguese
|
||||||
|
defaults
|
||||||
|
- optional regional or cultural overlays when the source context earns them
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The initial cultural ontology profile is
|
||||||
|
`data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR.yaml`.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Umbanda-related scenes, speakers, ritual contexts, or referents may add the
|
||||||
|
`data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR-umbanda.yaml` overlay. That overlay must
|
||||||
|
not activate for generic Brazilian flavor.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Regional or cultural variants should be selected through the overlay catalog at
|
||||||
|
`data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR-overlays.yaml`. Planned overlay slots are
|
||||||
|
not active profiles until reviewed examples and source context exist.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Japanese
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Japanese must be explicit about register and relationship stance. Politeness,
|
||||||
|
sentence-final force, omitted subjects, and address terms are realization
|
||||||
|
choices, not decoration.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The target lowerer should record:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `locale: ja-JP` when a locale value is needed
|
||||||
|
- target cultural ontology profile used
|
||||||
|
- register such as `plain`, `polite`, `rough`, or `technical`
|
||||||
|
- whether subject omission preserves or harms clarity
|
||||||
|
- whether katakana, kanji, kana, or mixed script choices carry useful pressure
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The initial cultural ontology profile is
|
||||||
|
`data/target-language-ontology/ja-JP.yaml`.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Packet Shape
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
```yaml
|
||||||
|
schema_version: weksa.utterance_lowering.v0
|
||||||
|
source_packet_id:
|
||||||
|
target_agent_id:
|
||||||
|
agent_state_ref:
|
||||||
|
projected_context_ref:
|
||||||
|
lowering_controls:
|
||||||
|
output_mode: dialogue
|
||||||
|
preserve_referents:
|
||||||
|
preserve_predications:
|
||||||
|
allow_inference:
|
||||||
|
max_line_count:
|
||||||
|
realizations:
|
||||||
|
- realization_id:
|
||||||
|
target_language:
|
||||||
|
code:
|
||||||
|
locale:
|
||||||
|
script:
|
||||||
|
register:
|
||||||
|
cultural_ontology_refs:
|
||||||
|
outputs:
|
||||||
|
visible_action:
|
||||||
|
spoken_text:
|
||||||
|
literal_backgloss:
|
||||||
|
natural_backtranslation:
|
||||||
|
private_interpretation:
|
||||||
|
intended_effect:
|
||||||
|
trace:
|
||||||
|
```
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Output Contract
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Each realization should emit:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `spoken_text`: target-language dialogue.
|
||||||
|
- `visible_action`: optional observable behavior around the line.
|
||||||
|
- `literal_backgloss`: close structural gloss for reviewers.
|
||||||
|
- `natural_backtranslation`: natural English restatement for review only.
|
||||||
|
- `private_interpretation`: what the speaker thinks they are doing.
|
||||||
|
- `intended_effect`: what the speaker wants the line to do.
|
||||||
|
- `trace`: source fields, target-language decisions, and unresolved questions.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Backtranslations are review aids. They are not new source meaning, and later
|
||||||
|
targets must not be lowered from them.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Trace should name the cultural ontology axes that shaped the line, especially
|
||||||
|
where the target language requires a social or register choice the source packet
|
||||||
|
does not spell out.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## First Proof
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The first proof uses the existing Nibu warning intent:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
```text
|
||||||
|
do not touch the damaged ship control, because doing so may endanger you
|
||||||
|
```
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The output set should include:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- English flavored by Nibu's projected context
|
||||||
|
- `pt-BR` with direct warning force and Brazilian Portuguese idiom
|
||||||
|
- Japanese with sharp, technically precise plain-register force
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The proof fails if any target loses the damaged control, the player risk, or
|
||||||
|
Nibu's intervention. It also fails if the target line becomes generic assistant
|
||||||
|
politeness or random cruelty.
|
||||||
|
|
@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- Keep the persistent state spine small and readable.
|
- Keep the persistent state spine small and readable.
|
||||||
- Stabilize the interlingua packet standard before runtime code.
|
- Stabilize the interlingua packet standard before runtime code.
|
||||||
- Prove interlingua lowering to flavored English before attempting alien-language
|
- Prove interlingua lowering to human target-language realizations before
|
||||||
lowering.
|
attempting alien-language lowering, starting with English, `pt-BR`, and
|
||||||
|
Japanese.
|
||||||
- Decide the first language-project state format after the interlingua boundary
|
- Decide the first language-project state format after the interlingua boundary
|
||||||
is clear.
|
is clear.
|
||||||
- Build a hand-authored toy language-project slice before automating
|
- Build a hand-authored toy language-project slice before automating
|
||||||
|
|
@ -17,7 +18,9 @@
|
||||||
## First Prototype
|
## First Prototype
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- Validate one minimal interlingua packet.
|
- Validate one minimal interlingua packet.
|
||||||
- Lower one packet through Nibu's projected agent state into flavored English.
|
- Lower one packet through Nibu's projected agent state into English, Brazilian
|
||||||
|
Portuguese, and Japanese realizations, each through an explicit target-language
|
||||||
|
cultural ontology profile.
|
||||||
- Add one English pronunciation plan that strings the lowered line into broad
|
- Add one English pronunciation plan that strings the lowered line into broad
|
||||||
IPA.
|
IPA.
|
||||||
- Add one toy utterance embedding handoff fixture, then replace hand-authored
|
- Add one toy utterance embedding handoff fixture, then replace hand-authored
|
||||||
|
|
@ -26,8 +29,9 @@
|
||||||
utterance handoffs as typed CultCache witnesses.
|
utterance handoffs as typed CultCache witnesses.
|
||||||
- Publish the provider advertisement and first Eve operator/intent-review
|
- Publish the provider advertisement and first Eve operator/intent-review
|
||||||
surfaces through CultMesh for Odin discovery.
|
surfaces through CultMesh for Odin discovery.
|
||||||
- Preserve the first lowering proof as fixture data under
|
- Preserve the first English-only lowering proof under
|
||||||
`examples/english-lowering/`.
|
`examples/english-lowering/`, and the shared multilingual proof under
|
||||||
|
`examples/multilingual-lowering/`.
|
||||||
- Preserve the Airawa first-contact slice as a hand-authored language-project
|
- Preserve the Airawa first-contact slice as a hand-authored language-project
|
||||||
pressure note before attempting full alien-language translation.
|
pressure note before attempting full alien-language translation.
|
||||||
- Parse or load one language project definition.
|
- Parse or load one language project definition.
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
20
examples/multilingual-lowering/README.md
Normal file
20
examples/multilingual-lowering/README.md
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|
|
@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
|
||||||
|
# Multilingual Lowering Examples
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
These examples prove that Weksa can lower one structured utterance intent into
|
||||||
|
multiple target-language realizations without using English as the hidden pivot.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
```text
|
||||||
|
interlingua packet
|
||||||
|
-> projected speaker-local context
|
||||||
|
-> English / pt-BR / Japanese realization set
|
||||||
|
-> evaluation
|
||||||
|
```
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Fixtures pass when each target preserves the same source meaning, obeys the
|
||||||
|
same projected speaker context, and records target-language realization choices
|
||||||
|
clearly enough to review.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Fixtures
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- [nibu-proof-001](./nibu-proof-001/): Nibu warns the player away from an unsafe
|
||||||
|
damaged ship control in English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.
|
||||||
74
examples/multilingual-lowering/nibu-proof-001/evaluation.md
Normal file
74
examples/multilingual-lowering/nibu-proof-001/evaluation.md
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|
|
@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
|
||||||
|
# Nibu Multilingual Lowering Evaluation
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Fixture: `nibu-proof-001`
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Source intent: Nibu warns the player away from a damaged ship control because
|
||||||
|
touching it may endanger the player.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Pass Criteria
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- The player remains the addressee and potential harmed party.
|
||||||
|
- The damaged control remains the unsafe instrument.
|
||||||
|
- Nibu remains the intervening speaker.
|
||||||
|
- The line is a warning, not a neutral description.
|
||||||
|
- The target output does not add facts unavailable to Nibu.
|
||||||
|
- Each target cites and applies a target-language cultural ontology profile.
|
||||||
|
- Backtranslations are review aids only and do not become source meaning.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## English
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Status: pass.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The English line keeps the direct imperative, the damaged control, and the risk
|
||||||
|
to the player's nervous system. The circuit-diagram image carries Nibu's
|
||||||
|
ship-system embodiment without inventing target-language alien forms.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Cultural ontology applied: direct second-person address, casual technical
|
||||||
|
register, and explicit agency are acceptable for this urgent warning.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Brazilian Portuguese
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Status: pass.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The `pt-BR` line uses `controle` and broad Brazilian `você` to preserve a
|
||||||
|
direct, sharp warning without pretending all Brazilian speech uses one regional
|
||||||
|
address pattern. It keeps the same hazard frame: the player must remove their
|
||||||
|
hand from the control or risk bodily harm.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Risk: the line is intentionally blunt. Later relationship states may need a
|
||||||
|
softer treatment choice or a regional overlay, but this fixture's first-contact
|
||||||
|
warning benefits from the direct imperative.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Cultural ontology applied: the fixture chooses `pt-BR`, `você`, bare imperative
|
||||||
|
force, Brazilian lexical preference, and broad Brazilian default explicitly
|
||||||
|
instead of hiding those choices under generic Portuguese.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Umbanda overlay: not active. The source scene has no Umbanda speaker, ritual
|
||||||
|
context, terreiro, entity reference, or authoring metadata requesting that
|
||||||
|
overlay.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Regional overlay: not active. The fixture uses the broad Brazilian default
|
||||||
|
because the source scene does not name a Brazilian region or community.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Japanese
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Status: pass.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The Japanese line uses plain, technically precise warning force. `制御盤` keeps
|
||||||
|
the unsafe object as ship hardware, and `手を離して` preserves the immediate
|
||||||
|
intervention. Subject omission is acceptable because the player is the direct
|
||||||
|
addressee in the scene.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Risk: making the line rougher with stronger particles could increase bite but
|
||||||
|
would also risk turning Nibu into generic stylized aggression.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Cultural ontology applied: plain register, emergency override, subject
|
||||||
|
omission, technical kanji compounds, and warning-consequence force are explicit
|
||||||
|
choices rather than invisible defaults.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Overall Result
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Pass. All three target realizations preserve the interlingua meaning and project
|
||||||
|
Nibu's voice pressure without making English the lowering source. The Portuguese
|
||||||
|
target is Brazilian Portuguese with room for explicit regional or
|
||||||
|
religious-cultural overlays when the source context earns them.
|
||||||
121
examples/multilingual-lowering/nibu-proof-001/realizations.yaml
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121
examples/multilingual-lowering/nibu-proof-001/realizations.yaml
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|
|
@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
|
||||||
|
schema_version: weksa.utterance_lowering.v0
|
||||||
|
source_packet_id: nibu-proof-001
|
||||||
|
source_packet_ref: examples/english-lowering/nibu-proof-001/interlingua.yaml
|
||||||
|
target_agent_id: nibu
|
||||||
|
agent_state_ref: E:/Projects/AetheriaLore/.voidbot/state/nibu.cc
|
||||||
|
projected_context_ref: examples/english-lowering/nibu-proof-001/projected-context.yaml
|
||||||
|
lowering_controls:
|
||||||
|
output_mode: dialogue
|
||||||
|
preserve_referents:
|
||||||
|
- player
|
||||||
|
- control
|
||||||
|
preserve_predications:
|
||||||
|
- touch-risk
|
||||||
|
- prevent-touch
|
||||||
|
allow_inference: bounded
|
||||||
|
max_line_count: 2
|
||||||
|
realizations:
|
||||||
|
- realization_id: nibu-proof-001-en
|
||||||
|
target_language:
|
||||||
|
code: en
|
||||||
|
locale: en-US
|
||||||
|
script: Latn
|
||||||
|
register: sharp technical casual
|
||||||
|
cultural_ontology_refs:
|
||||||
|
- data/target-language-ontology/en-US.yaml
|
||||||
|
outputs:
|
||||||
|
visible_action: The cockpit lights snap from amber to surgical white around the damaged control.
|
||||||
|
spoken_text: "Take your hand off that control unless you want your nervous system to become my least useful circuit diagram."
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literal_backgloss: "Remove your hand from that control, unless you want your nervous system to become my least useful circuit diagram."
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natural_backtranslation: "Do not touch that control. It can hurt you, and I am warning you in my own abrasive way."
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private_interpretation: Nibu is stopping the player from injuring themselves while refusing to frame the warning as care.
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intended_effect: Make the player withdraw from the unsafe control and recognize Nibu's technical authority.
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trace:
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meaning_preserved:
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- player is warned away from the damaged control
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- touching the control may endanger the player
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- Nibu intervenes protectively without sounding gentle
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target_language_decisions:
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- direct imperative preserves warning force
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- circuit-diagram image preserves ship-system embodiment
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cultural_ontology_axes:
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- address.direct_second_person
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- register.technical_casual
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- agency.explicit_risk_to_addressee
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projected_context_used:
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- precise_abrasive_warning
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- unwanted_dependency
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- ship-system embodiment
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- realization_id: nibu-proof-001-pt-BR
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target_language:
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code: pt
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locale: pt-BR
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script: Latn
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register: direct technical casual
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cultural_ontology_refs:
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- data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR.yaml
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outputs:
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visible_action: As luzes do cockpit passam de âmbar para branco cirúrgico ao redor do controle danificado.
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spoken_text: "Tira a mão desse controle, a não ser que você queira transformar o seu sistema nervoso no meu diagrama de circuitos menos útil."
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literal_backgloss: "Take the hand from that control, unless you want to transform your nervous system into my least useful circuit diagram."
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natural_backtranslation: "Take your hand off that control unless you want your nervous system turned into my least useful circuit diagram."
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private_interpretation: Nibu is blocking a self-inflicted injury while making the warning sound like technical irritation.
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intended_effect: Make the player stop touching the unsafe control and accept that Nibu knows the ship's damage better than they do.
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trace:
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meaning_preserved:
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- player is directly ordered to remove their hand
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- the control remains the dangerous instrument
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- the risk is bodily harm to the player
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target_language_decisions:
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- pt-BR locale is explicit; no generic Portuguese target is used
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- "controle" preserves Brazilian Portuguese usage for the ship control
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- broad Brazilian "você" is used instead of regionally marked "tu"
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cultural_ontology_axes:
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- treatment.voce
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- directness.bare_imperative
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- lexical_locale.brazilian_portuguese
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- regional_and_cultural_overlay.broad_brazilian_default
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- metaphor.technical_character_pressure
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projected_context_used:
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- precise_abrasive_warning
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- technical authority
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- protective refusal to sound caring
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open_questions:
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|
- Should a regional overlay choose "tu" or other local address behavior for a specific Brazilian setting?
|
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|
- Should an Umbanda overlay ever be active here? Current answer is no; the source scene has no Umbanda context.
|
||||||
|
- realization_id: nibu-proof-001-ja
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||||||
|
target_language:
|
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|
code: ja
|
||||||
|
locale: ja-JP
|
||||||
|
script: Jpan
|
||||||
|
register: sharp technical plain
|
||||||
|
cultural_ontology_refs:
|
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|
- data/target-language-ontology/ja-JP.yaml
|
||||||
|
outputs:
|
||||||
|
visible_action: 損傷した制御盤の周囲で、操縦室の灯りが琥珀色から外科灯のような白へ切り替わる。
|
||||||
|
spoken_text: "その制御盤から手を離して。神経系を、私のいちばん役に立たない回路図にしたくないなら。"
|
||||||
|
literal_backgloss: "From that control panel, release your hand. If you do not want to make your nervous system my least useful circuit diagram."
|
||||||
|
natural_backtranslation: "Take your hand off that control panel unless you want your nervous system to become my least useful circuit diagram."
|
||||||
|
private_interpretation: Nibu is issuing a technically precise warning while treating concern as an inconvenient side effect.
|
||||||
|
intended_effect: Make the player pull away from the damaged control before harm occurs.
|
||||||
|
trace:
|
||||||
|
meaning_preserved:
|
||||||
|
- the unsafe control is named as the thing to stop touching
|
||||||
|
- the player's nervous system is threatened as the harmed patient
|
||||||
|
- Nibu's intervention prevents the touch-risk event
|
||||||
|
target_language_decisions:
|
||||||
|
- plain imperative-like "手を離して" keeps the warning direct without formal politeness
|
||||||
|
- "制御盤" keeps the control as technical ship hardware rather than a vague button
|
||||||
|
- subject omission is allowed because the immediate addressee is clear
|
||||||
|
cultural_ontology_axes:
|
||||||
|
- politeness.plain
|
||||||
|
- social_position.emergency_override
|
||||||
|
- ellipsis.addressee_recoverable
|
||||||
|
- script_and_register.kanji_technical_compound
|
||||||
|
- sentence_final_force.warning_consequence
|
||||||
|
projected_context_used:
|
||||||
|
- precise_abrasive_warning
|
||||||
|
- ship-system embodiment
|
||||||
|
- contempt for gentle assistant framing
|
||||||
|
open_questions:
|
||||||
|
- A rougher final particle could increase bite, but may push the line toward anime-coded aggression instead of technical irritation.
|
||||||
|
|
@ -20,8 +20,14 @@ them.
|
||||||
configuration.
|
configuration.
|
||||||
- [interlingua-packet.md](./interlingua-packet.md): shared meaning packet
|
- [interlingua-packet.md](./interlingua-packet.md): shared meaning packet
|
||||||
contract between clients, authoring tools, and language projects.
|
contract between clients, authoring tools, and language projects.
|
||||||
|
- [utterance-lowering-packet.md](./utterance-lowering-packet.md): shared packet
|
||||||
|
contract for lowering interlingua and projected speaker context into one or
|
||||||
|
more target-language utterance realizations.
|
||||||
|
- [target-language-cultural-ontology.md](./target-language-cultural-ontology.md):
|
||||||
|
contract for the address, politeness, register, idiom, metaphor, script, and
|
||||||
|
forbidden-flattening profiles consumed by target lowerers.
|
||||||
- [english-lowering-packet.md](./english-lowering-packet.md): packet contract
|
- [english-lowering-packet.md](./english-lowering-packet.md): packet contract
|
||||||
for projecting interlingua through agent state into flavored English.
|
for the older English-specific realization lane.
|
||||||
- [english-pronunciation-plan.md](./english-pronunciation-plan.md): plan for
|
- [english-pronunciation-plan.md](./english-pronunciation-plan.md): plan for
|
||||||
stringing flavored English into IPA/phoneme sequences before downstream speech.
|
stringing flavored English into IPA/phoneme sequences before downstream speech.
|
||||||
- [utterance-embedding-handoff.md](./utterance-embedding-handoff.md): learned utterance embedding handoff
|
- [utterance-embedding-handoff.md](./utterance-embedding-handoff.md): learned utterance embedding handoff
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
73
schemas/target-language-cultural-ontology.md
Normal file
73
schemas/target-language-cultural-ontology.md
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
|
||||||
|
# Target-Language Cultural Ontology Contract
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This is the human-facing schema receipt for target-language cultural ontology
|
||||||
|
profiles consumed by Weksa utterance lowering.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Executable schema code does not exist yet. When it does, it must reconcile with
|
||||||
|
this document and the profiles under `data/target-language-ontology/`.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Authority
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
A target-language cultural ontology profile owns the realization distinctions
|
||||||
|
that must be inspected for a human target language before surface text is
|
||||||
|
chosen.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It owns:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- address and treatment distinctions
|
||||||
|
- politeness and register pressure
|
||||||
|
- social stance and directness defaults
|
||||||
|
- idiom, metaphor, and lexical-locale risks
|
||||||
|
- script or orthographic choices that carry meaning
|
||||||
|
- forbidden flattenings for reviewed output
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It does not own:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- source meaning
|
||||||
|
- speaker identity
|
||||||
|
- private state
|
||||||
|
- exhaustive grammar
|
||||||
|
- whole-culture description
|
||||||
|
- final wording without an interlingua packet
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Required Fields
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `profile_id`: stable profile identifier.
|
||||||
|
- `language`: target code, locale, and script.
|
||||||
|
- `scope`: bounded statement of what the profile is and is not.
|
||||||
|
- `authority`: `owns` and `does_not_own` lists.
|
||||||
|
- `salience_axes`: named axes the lowerer must inspect.
|
||||||
|
- `forbidden_flattenings`: mistakes the target lowerer must avoid.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Salience Axes
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Each salience axis should name:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `relevant_distinctions`: choices the target language or locale makes visible.
|
||||||
|
- `lowering_questions`: questions reviewers and lowerers should answer before
|
||||||
|
accepting an output.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Examples:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- English directness and sarcasm.
|
||||||
|
- Brazilian Portuguese treatment choice, lexical locale, and regional or
|
||||||
|
religious-cultural overlays.
|
||||||
|
- Japanese politeness, ellipsis, and sentence-final force.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Fixture Contract
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Reviewed multilingual fixtures should cite the profile used by each
|
||||||
|
realization:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
```yaml
|
||||||
|
target_language:
|
||||||
|
code: pt
|
||||||
|
locale: pt-BR
|
||||||
|
script: Latn
|
||||||
|
register: direct technical casual
|
||||||
|
cultural_ontology_refs:
|
||||||
|
- data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR.yaml
|
||||||
|
```
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The realization trace should name the cultural ontology axes that shaped the
|
||||||
|
line.
|
||||||
90
schemas/utterance-lowering-packet.md
Normal file
90
schemas/utterance-lowering-packet.md
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
|
||||||
|
# Utterance Lowering Packet Contract
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This is the human-facing schema receipt for lowering one Weksa interlingua
|
||||||
|
packet into one or more target-language utterance realizations.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Executable schema code does not exist yet. When it does, it must reconcile with
|
||||||
|
this document and
|
||||||
|
[Multilingual Utterance Lowering](../docs/multilingual-utterance-lowering.md)
|
||||||
|
in the same pass.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Authority
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The packet sits after interlingua validation and projected speaker-context
|
||||||
|
selection. It does not replace either source.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It combines:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- one Weksa interlingua packet
|
||||||
|
- one projected speaker-local context
|
||||||
|
- one target-language cultural ontology profile stack per realization
|
||||||
|
- lowering controls
|
||||||
|
- one or more target-language realizations
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Required Fields
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `schema_version`: currently `weksa.utterance_lowering.v0`.
|
||||||
|
- `source_packet_id`: ID of the interlingua packet being lowered.
|
||||||
|
- `target_agent_id`: speaker identity.
|
||||||
|
- `agent_state_ref`: source reference for canonical or projected state.
|
||||||
|
- `projected_context_ref`: source reference for the consumed projection.
|
||||||
|
- `lowering_controls`: constraints shared by all target lowerers.
|
||||||
|
- `realizations`: non-empty list of target-language outputs.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Target Language
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Each realization must name its target explicitly:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `code`: BCP 47-style broad code such as `en`, `pt`, or `ja`.
|
||||||
|
- `locale`: precise locale where it matters, such as `en-US`, `pt-BR`, or
|
||||||
|
`ja-JP`.
|
||||||
|
- `script`: script or script mix when relevant.
|
||||||
|
- `register`: target-language stance such as plain, polite, rough, formal,
|
||||||
|
technical, or character-specific.
|
||||||
|
- `cultural_ontology_refs`: ordered profile stack used to inspect address,
|
||||||
|
politeness, register, idiom, metaphor, and other culturally loaded
|
||||||
|
realization choices.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Portuguese must not use an unqualified `pt` target for reviewed fixtures. Use
|
||||||
|
`pt-BR` or another named locale. Regional and religious-cultural options should
|
||||||
|
be modeled as explicit overlays on a base locale profile.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Japanese fixtures must record the politeness/register stance they selected.
|
||||||
|
Subject omission, honorific pressure, and sentence-final force are not invisible
|
||||||
|
defaults.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Output Fields
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Each realization should include:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- `spoken_text`
|
||||||
|
- `visible_action`
|
||||||
|
- `literal_backgloss`
|
||||||
|
- `natural_backtranslation`
|
||||||
|
- `private_interpretation`
|
||||||
|
- `intended_effect`
|
||||||
|
- `trace`
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
`spoken_text` may be empty only when the lowerer chooses a non-speech action.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Backtranslation Boundary
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
`literal_backgloss` and `natural_backtranslation` are reviewer aids. They do
|
||||||
|
not become source meaning, and other target lowerers must not lower from them.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Trace Requirements
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Trace should identify:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
- preserved referents
|
||||||
|
- preserved predications
|
||||||
|
- projected speaker-context pressures used
|
||||||
|
- cultural ontology axes used
|
||||||
|
- target-language register decisions
|
||||||
|
- target-language risks or unresolved questions
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
## Downstream Speech Boundary
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This packet may feed pronunciation planning or AquaSynth handoff work later, but
|
||||||
|
it does not contain phoneme-parity, vocal-tract, reference-synth, or realtime
|
||||||
|
voice artifacts.
|
||||||
|
|
@ -34,12 +34,15 @@ constraints:
|
||||||
- The interlingua must stay language-neutral. Setting-specific pressure starts
|
- The interlingua must stay language-neutral. Setting-specific pressure starts
|
||||||
in namespaced extensions and only becomes standard when multiple clients or
|
in namespaced extensions and only becomes standard when multiple clients or
|
||||||
language projects need it.
|
language projects need it.
|
||||||
- Flavored English is the first lowering target. Alien-language lowering waits
|
- Human target-language utterance lowering is the first proof layer. English,
|
||||||
until Weksa can preserve meaning through a character voice humans can judge.
|
Brazilian Portuguese (`pt-BR`), and Japanese are the initial targets.
|
||||||
|
Alien-language lowering waits until Weksa can preserve meaning through
|
||||||
|
character voice, target cultural ontology, and realization choices humans
|
||||||
|
can judge.
|
||||||
- Agent state is projected context, not prompt prose storage. Raw state
|
- Agent state is projected context, not prompt prose storage. Raw state
|
||||||
internals must not leak into generated dialogue.
|
internals must not leak into generated dialogue.
|
||||||
- AquaSynth owns IPA, phoneme, reference-synth, vocal-tract, and speech parity
|
- AquaSynth owns IPA, phoneme, reference-synth, vocal-tract, and speech parity
|
||||||
work. Weksa owns interlingua-to-English projection.
|
work. Weksa owns interlingua-to-utterance projection.
|
||||||
- Weksa still owns English pronunciation planning: tokenization, word
|
- Weksa still owns English pronunciation planning: tokenization, word
|
||||||
pronunciations, phrase grouping, stress, and broad IPA stringing.
|
pronunciations, phrase grouping, stress, and broad IPA stringing.
|
||||||
- Long-term speech handoff should use Weksa-provided speech text embeddings,
|
- Long-term speech handoff should use Weksa-provided speech text embeddings,
|
||||||
|
|
@ -72,8 +75,10 @@ data_flow:
|
||||||
process:
|
process:
|
||||||
- accept or decompose source into a Weksa interlingua packet
|
- accept or decompose source into a Weksa interlingua packet
|
||||||
- optionally project the packet through an agent-local state context
|
- optionally project the packet through an agent-local state context
|
||||||
- lower projected meaning into flavored English dialogue
|
- lower projected meaning into target-language utterance realizations
|
||||||
- optionally produce an English pronunciation plan for the lowered dialogue
|
through explicit target-language cultural ontology profiles
|
||||||
|
- optionally produce pronunciation plans for lowered dialogue where Weksa
|
||||||
|
owns the target pronunciation layer
|
||||||
- optionally encode the line as a learned expression vector for downstream
|
- optionally encode the line as a learned expression vector for downstream
|
||||||
synth control
|
synth control
|
||||||
- apply alien ontology and cultural salience
|
- apply alien ontology and cultural salience
|
||||||
|
|
@ -163,10 +168,14 @@ accepted_design:
|
||||||
- The interlingua packet is the client-facing meaning contract. It owns
|
- The interlingua packet is the client-facing meaning contract. It owns
|
||||||
referents, predications, relations, discourse, context, provenance,
|
referents, predications, relations, discourse, context, provenance,
|
||||||
constraints, extensions, and trace data before ontology projection.
|
constraints, extensions, and trace data before ontology projection.
|
||||||
- English lowering through agent state is the first proof target before alien
|
- Utterance lowering through projected agent state is the first proof target
|
||||||
language rendering.
|
before alien language rendering. English remains one target, not the hidden
|
||||||
|
source for other target languages.
|
||||||
- Nibu is the first target for flavored-English lowering, using her VoidBot
|
- Nibu is the first target for flavored-English lowering, using her VoidBot
|
||||||
state and Aetheria lore note as source context.
|
state and Aetheria lore note as source context.
|
||||||
|
- Target-language cultural ontology profiles own address, politeness,
|
||||||
|
register, idiom, metaphor, script, and forbidden-flattening distinctions for
|
||||||
|
human-language lowering. They do not own source meaning.
|
||||||
- Weksa is the engine. A language project owns one constructed language.
|
- Weksa is the engine. A language project owns one constructed language.
|
||||||
Setting docs own story, species, culture, and use cases.
|
Setting docs own story, species, culture, and use cases.
|
||||||
- Rust to Dust is an earlier proving ground, not engine doctrine.
|
- Rust to Dust is an earlier proving ground, not engine doctrine.
|
||||||
|
|
@ -264,5 +273,9 @@ landed_baseline:
|
||||||
material belong in PanPhon sequence evidence that AquaSynth compresses into
|
material belong in PanPhon sequence evidence that AquaSynth compresses into
|
||||||
the phonetic realization embedding.
|
the phonetic realization embedding.
|
||||||
- First Nibu interlingua-to-English lowering fixture.
|
- First Nibu interlingua-to-English lowering fixture.
|
||||||
|
- First Nibu multilingual utterance lowering fixture at
|
||||||
|
`examples/multilingual-lowering/nibu-proof-001/`, covering English,
|
||||||
|
Brazilian Portuguese (`pt-BR`), and Japanese from one shared interlingua
|
||||||
|
packet through explicit target-language cultural ontology profiles.
|
||||||
- `bge-m3:latest` installed on neighboring Ollama box `192.168.1.84` and
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- `bge-m3:latest` installed on neighboring Ollama box `192.168.1.84` and
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