Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Timo Jyrinki <t...@debian.org>
* Package name : foma Version : 0.9.18 Upstream Author : Mans Hulden <mans.hul...@gmmail.com> * URL : https://bitbucket.org/mhulden/foma/ http://code.google.com/p/foma/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Xerox-compatible finite-state compiler Foma is a compiler, programming language, and C library for constructing finite-state automata and transducers for various uses. It has specific support for many natural language processing applications such as producing morphological analyzers. Although NLP applications are probably the main use of foma, it is sufficiently generic to use for a large number of purposes. The package would be required by suomi-malaga / voikko-fi 2.0, which drops the malaga backend dependency and switches to using VFST backend that requires foma to build. I'm currently planning to maintain it on my own as part of the other Voikko packages. Voikko upstream however helps here, as also the initial packaging is based on upstream's packaging for Debian. I don't need a sponsor, but a co-maintainer would always be welcome. Especially for libvoikko's optional HFST requirements for other languages than Finnish.