2010/9/26 Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]>: > Sun Sep 26 15:42:44 IST 2010 > * Initial release (0.1.0) > * Caveats: > - Functions only in an->es direction > - Several closed category words missing from an analyser > (including "ir") > - "Cowboys, Ted!" > This system has been put together in a very shoddy, MacGuyver-ish > way: > The majority of the lexicon has been composed on the basis > of presumed cognates. For the most part, this has been > restricted to Latin derivatives, but on more than one occasion, I > simply went nuts and pulled in anything the Spanish analyser would > recognise. > The only bitexts available were the UN Declaration of Human Rights > and the welcome message for new users of the Aragonese Wikipedia. > Statistical methods were not widely employed. > To deal with the spelling variations, I abused the heck out of sed, > filtering unknowns repeatedly before passing the result through the > analyser, to pluck out the results. Much of the ~8000 words in the > bilingual lexicon are mere variations. (In a particularly ironic > twist, it has 3 variations of 'normalización'). These variants will > need to be sorted out to have es->an: the first translation made with > this system before release was of the document on an.wikipedia > describing the new spelling rules. > Although I got some notes from Juan Pablo Martínez on the equivalents > of ser and estar, I was not able to get further information. My > "solution" is to ignore the issue and come back to it later. > Also, Juan Pablo added some vocabulary to the analyser, most of which > I have not been able to use for lack of translations. Hopefully, we > can get these reinstated soon. > A tagger has yet to be trained for Aragonese; during development, I found > the Spanish tagger to be sufficient, and so have used that. This is a > temporary measure. > > > The release is a little premature, perhaps, but I want a release to > mark the European Day of Languages. It's not bad for approximately 3 > weeks' work :) >
Congrats! And happy Language Day, all :-) -Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
