Dear Apertiumers: recently, a consortium coordinated by Antonio Toral at Dublin City University has been granted a European Commission FP7-PEOPLE project called "Abu-Matran: Automatic Building of Machine Translation [1]. This project will, among other things, create Apertium data. One of the languages for which it will be creating Apertium data is Croatian (EU accession country).
For "political" reasons inside the Abu-Matran project —getting the maximum possible involvement of Croatian developers in Apertium language pairs using Croatian—, Nikola Ljubešić (at Abu-Matran partner U Zagreb) has suggested the possibility of avoiding the name "Serbo-Croatian" to refer to the "Sprachbund" Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian. In fact, we are using an ISO-639-1 code (sh) that is apparently deprecated (we should be using the inclusive macrolanguage code hbs). I'd like to explore the possibility of officially moving in that direction. I talked to Francis Tyers about this before writing to the list. The following sentences paraphrase his answer, as I basically agree with it. I am aware that most Croatian developers in Apertium are currently fine with the 'Serbo-Croatian' designation. Also, I think that in any "user fronted" application we will be using the separate modes, e.g. hbs_HR, hbs_SR and hbs_BS, with the corresponding 'Croatian', 'Serbian', 'Bosnian' readings. And I know that inside a language pair it doesn't make sense to separate them. That is, language pairs should in principle go to and from the hbs Sprachbund. Also, I suggest that if we're going to use the ISO-639-3 code, we should use it for both sides in any pair. I'd love to hear from those involved. Cheers Mikel [1] http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.printdocument&PJ_LANG=EN&q=2D2FAA8BD56D7B091CE67BB014675D61&PJ_RCN=13456622&type=adv&pid=80 -- Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/) Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant E-03071 Alacant, Spain Phone: +34 96 590 9776 Fax: +34 96 590 9326 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
