El dg 18 de 11 de 2012 a les 12:01 +0100, en/na Per Tunedal va escriure: > Hi, > I've started some work on abbreviations for the pair Swedish - Danish > (sv- da). I imagined that this would be a well-defined, small task of > limited scope, but it isn't. > > Some questions: > > 1. Internationally accepted standard abbreviations > > I'm talking about abbreviations for countries (e.g. SE for Sweden), for > languages (e.g. sv for Swedish), for currencies (e.g. SEK for svenska > kronor - Swedish crowns), for measurement units (e.g. kg or m) and > possible some other domains. These abbreviations are common to all > languages and it seems unnecessary to add them to all language pairs. > Couldn't they be include by default in Apertium? Now they are marked as > unknown words and thus get unnecessary attention when post editing.
There complications to "including them by default" for example "kg" and "m" are not the same in all languages. For some languages, codes may have unexpected ambiguity with other words, thus decreasing the performance of the tagger. So no, I don't think it's a good idea to include them by default. A good idea, would perhaps be to have a page on the Wiki with a list that people can copy, paste and check. Or a script in the trunk/apertium-tools which autogenerates dictionary entries for common abbreviations which can then be manually checked before being added. > 2. An abbreviation that hasn't any equivalent in the other language in > the pair. It has to be translated by an expression. > How to treat them? No idea, give some examples. > 3. Abbreviations that are used as prefixes. > > Many abbreviations are just just as prefixes, like "e-" (e.g. e-post = > e-mail) and "id-" (e.g. id-kort = ID, identity card). > How to treat them? This is a form of derivation. Add the derived words as dictionary entries. Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
