On 13 May 2013 08:56, Per Tunedal <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm rather looking for
> a solution more integrated into Apertium than a constraint grammar,
> something less complicated and with a simpler syntax.
>
More integrated, agreed.
Simpler syntax, not agreed - CG's syntax is often praised as being easy to
learn. And it certainly beats any XML monstrosity, though adding an XML
parser for writing XML grammars would be easy, provided anyone can come up
with a sane XML schema that covers all features of CG.
> I'm enthusiastic about the Apertium plug-in to Omega-T and the Apertium
> Caffeine plug-in. Language pair usable in the these applications have a
> potential to be widely used. Unfortunately, all language pairs using
> constraint grammars are excluded from those applications.
There is no technical reason for that exclusion. It is possible to ship
CG-3 inside a .jar and execute it when needed, or just keep it open in a
slave process. Or use JNI with the shared library. This should work on all
platforms, though I've only tested Linux (x86, x86_64), Mac OS X, Windows.
It should even be possible on Android, but I so far haven't had reason to
build CG-3 for Android.
If one doesn't want to ship all the platforms in a single package (that
would be fairly big due to ICU), they can also be downloaded as needed.
-- Tino Didriksen
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