Hi,

a merge would make the pair is-sv benefit from the continuing
corrections, improvements and additions to the apertium-swe.swe.dix.

I've taken a look at those dictionaries and found that the differences
are considerable.

The first impression is that Tihomir has made the dictionary
apertium-is-sv.is-sv.dix very much more neat and tidy. I like his
grouping of similar items. That makes it more easy to maintain the
dictionary and to assure that everything in a category is included. (I
have started to do something similar with pronouns, because that have
been a mess. I'm still not sure if all pronouns are included in the
dictionary. It needs to be checked.)

The words in apertium-swe.swe.dix are still mainly grouped after
how/when they have been included. This is due to an ambition to indicate
the relative need for checking. Maybe this can be changed when more
words have been checked and corrected in some distant future.

Second:
The months are treated differently. I'm not sure exactly what Tihomir
has done, but it looks neat. This applies to the bidix as well. Can
anyone explain? Should this be used in apertium-swe.swe.dix and
apertium-swe-dan.swe-dan.dix ?

Third:
A merge presupposes changed terminology for pronouns in
apertium-is-sv.is-sv.dix:

subj = subject form changed to the traditional nom = nominative
obj = object form changed to the traditional acc = accusative

That would be a major change. I suppose this would deteriorate the
translation quality due to an immediate need to retrain the tagger, just
as for the pair sv-da. All the same such a change would make the is-sv
pair compatible with other pairs, and open up for new language pair like
is-da and is-no.

Forth:
If any words in apertium-is-sv.is-sv.dix still aren't present in
apertium-swe.swe.dix, it would be easy to include them.

Yours,
Per Tunedal

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