God aftan, New versions of the four Scandinavian pairs are now available from SourceForge, Github and apertium.org.
These releases come courtesy of Nynorsk pressekontor / NPK (an enclave of Nynorsk journalists working within NTB, the Norwegian News Agency[1]), with funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. There has been some press about the project.[2][3] NPK have been using apertium-nno-nob in production since fall 2018 – it's integrated into their translation/editing systems – and we've been continually improving it with the help of their post-edits and feedback. The form/spelling/style choices used by nob→nno are now more modern and uniform (there was a major release of Nynorsk[4] back in 2012, while most style decisions in the translator were made in the first release back in 2009). Other major changes to nno-nob: - 35 new transfer rules[5] - 248 new lrx rules - about 42.000 new names and 3.800 new non-names added to bidix - regression testing by checking that WER does not drop - lots of work on nob disambiguation - we now do long-distance adjective congruence - there's a post-nno.dix to get rid of triple consonants resulting from compounding - compounding happens on proper nouns too now - genitives are translated not just by preposition-rewriting, but we now also have: - lists of exceptions where we want to keep genitives - rewriting some nouns with relatives - rewriting nationalities with adjectives - rewriting some abstract nouns into compounds The project is not yet done, but people have been asking about when the fruits of it will show up on apertium.org :-) The other three pairs have also had improvements since last release; some were also getting pretty bad testvoc-issues due to changes in dependencies[6], so they get releases too. Apart from testvoc, the pairs have gotten some transfer rules and fixes merged in from nno-nob (e.g. prop compounding, and handling genitives in coordinated NP's), and various disambiguation and vocabulary updates. -Kevin [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_News_Agency [2] https://www.medier24.no/artikler/na-blir-det-nynorsk-bonanza-i-ntb-splitter-ny-robot-oversetter-artikler-automatisk-fra-bokmal/440934 [3] https://framtida.no/2018/08/08/nynorskrobot-ei-god-loysing-for-a-dekke-nynorskprosenten [4] http://www.sprakradet.no/upload/Brosjyrer/Ny%20nynorskrettskriving.pdf [5] One of which required a bugfix to apertium-transfer https://github.com/apertium/apertium/commit/542de014a93c96905198f193e0a62a89317fa8a9 [6] https://github.com/apertium/apertium-packaging/issues/12 _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
