On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:24 AM, < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > 2011/3/2 Francis Tyers <[email protected]> > > > > > > 4] http://nlp.ku.edu.np/cgi-bin/dobhase > > > > We sent a letter to the Dobhase people a few years ago, asking if they > > would free their stuff. We had some early success, but there was some > > trouble when they started squabbling over licences. Jacob Nordfalk will > > have more information on this. > > > > > >As far as I remember we (Apertium) sent an official letter to the > developers > >of dobhase and they were very positive to the idea, but they insisted that > >the sponsors of the funding should approve the open sourcing. I think they > >sent a letter about it and then evrything stalled. Probably you could, > with > >some effort, push to a start again. > I guess by now the sponsorship of the project that was funded by the Canadian Government is over, the Kathmandu University holds rights to it. I shall get in touch with the developers of the Dobhase project and let you know if any progress is made in the direction of releasing it under GNU/GPL . :) > > > > > > This much done, I feel that I still need to doubt my knowledge about > > > the process and need to ask myself "Where to start from" (PS I have > > > been through the Add new Language Pair HOW TO). > > > > You've been through the New Language Pair HOWTO and didn't ask any > > questions ? Did you understand _all_ of it ? > > > > >Time to come to the chat ;-) > >Look for Francis' nick name 'spectie'. > Will surely come to chat more often. In fact as far as I remember, it was 'specite' who helped me perform my first checkout from SVN. It was a tough job due to my current Institution based Squid Proxy. And yes, as I wrote up in the IRC channel once, understanding the HOW TO itself is a sort of challenge for a layman like me, so I've been through it a couple of times trying to get the things into my help and Googled up a million times just to familiarize myself with the linguistic terms. > > > > PS. Kind of surprised you didn't find any of the resources for Hindi and > > Nepali in the Apertium SVN. > > > > >Ah, come on, lets help the man. We have a lot of resurces, no wonder he > >doesent find it all by himself :-) > > >Esperanto-Nepali > > > https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/incubator/apertium-eo-ne.eo-ne.dix > > >English-Nepali > > > https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/incubator/apertium-ne-en/ > > >Installation: > >http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Minimal_installation_from_SVN > > > Thank you very much for providing these resources, although I had myself > bumped into them already but didn't mention them in the original post as I > wanted to explore more stuff related to ne-hi pair outside the SVN. Once again thank you,( both of you) for giving your valuable time to guide me. :) See you again in the IRC Channel . (Also, this is my first time in a mailing list. If I have broken up any rules about how to post, sorry.) -- Aishraj Dahal Bachelor's of Technology Computer Science and Engineering National Institute of Technology Warangal India
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