Hi, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013, at 9:17, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: > Per Tunedal <[email protected]> > writes: > > > Hi, > > the Apertium for dummies-page is outdated. I would like the same > > information, but updated. > > Hmm, if it's that confusing, maybe we should delete the wiki page. Each > language pair is slightly different, so it's impossible to make an > illustration that's true for all pairs.
No, that's not the main problem. My problem is that I don't understand what the commands stands for. I cannot recognize e.g. the tagger, the lexical transfer etc. I simply don't know what happens in each step shown by Apertium-Viewer. > > > Apparently, Apertium-Viewer displays the steps > > actually performed and in the actual order. I simply would like to have > > them deciphered. > > Using > http://wiki.apertium.org/w/images/2/25/Screenshot-jApertiumView.png as > an example, the _first_ line > > "This is a sample text" > > is the input text to the command in the _second_ line, > > /usr/bin/lt-proc …/en-eo.automorf.bin > > and the _third_ line > > ^This/This<det>… ……… > > is the output of that command. This output, is used as input to the next > command (fourth line). You can run the same commands in your terminal; > the same input should give the same output. Try it. > > > And further, I would like to know where and how a lexical selection > > module would influence the translation. > > see illustration: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.nlp.apertium/2715 Francis writes: "The lexical selection is done in the aptly-named "lexical selection" stage, which sits between lexical transfer (which outputs all the possible translations of each word) and structural transfer" But most alternative translations are already discarded by the tagger, aren't they? In the very first step. > > > Would the work of such a module > > be visible in Apertium-Viewer? > > Apertium-viewer just runs what's in the mode file, so yes. Fine. Yours, Per ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
