On 14 November 2011 23:16, Kevin Donnelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > It was so interesting to read the responses! I don't want to hog the list, so > I'll just pick out 3 of the most engaging points in this post and then sidle > back towards lurking mode :-) > > > Re Fran's trivial stemming being OK for a tagger, but not for an MT system, > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > this is indeed a valid point, so the suggestion may not be viable as far as MT > goes. > > However, it is not entirely impractical. I can envisage something like the > following, which assumes that the monodixes will have entries for surface and > lemma. Taking the relatively rare word "conductress", the process might be as > follows:
We use methods like these, in the off-line construction of dictionary entries. As reasonable as they seem in theory, in practice they are simply too unreliable for on-line use. > lookups as a post-processor on the other side. In English, perhaps something > like "[small]" could be added for nouns, "[rather]" for adjectives, eg > tiempito - [small] time, bajitos - [rather] low. > If it were considered, it would have to be optional, as this sort of automatic glossing is only useful for assimilation. > I take Mikel's point that the paradigms are long-standing, and that you could > simplify the paradigm reference to something like "liberación as acción", and > also Jimmy's that (assuming the speling format is extensible) the dix > generation and future updates can already be done from such a grid behind the > scenes (though I do wonder in that case why a GUI has proven difficult to > code). > The speling format is only suitable for simple entries. Difficult entries are what make the GUI... well... difficult. I didn't mention anything about updates. -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
