Hello all,
I have noticed that there is a Romanian-Catalan pair in the nursery that
has not been updated for some time. From what I have guessed from SVN
history, it was based on the released Romanian-Spanish pair and probably
took advantage of crossdics. While the pair has around 100 rules, it only
works from Romanian to Catalan, there are no rules for the other direction,
and it is full of generation errors. It is also self-contained, it does not
make use of standalone language modules.
Even though I am currently working on English-Catalan to release an update
as soon as possible, I think it would be great to work on this pair to
bring it up to date. Given that Romanian and Catalan are both Romance
languages with lots of similarities, that there is a good amount of
documentation about Romanian in the Apertium wiki (even transfer rules) and
that I have studied Romanian and can speak it to a certain extent, it
should not be a difficult task and we could get a very decent language pair.
This is a basic idea with no further planning, and depending on my spare
time it may not become real until next year's GSoC, but it would be great
to hear about your thoughts or even meet someone interested or who took
part in the development of the Romanian-Spanish pair.
Thanks and see you!
Marc
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*Marc Riera Irigoyen*
Freelance Translator EN/JA>CA/ES
(+34) 652 492 008
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