apertium/apertium-eng-lin

Apertium translation pair for English and Lingala English and Lingala: `apertium-eng-lin` =============================================================================== This is an Apertium language pair for translating between English and Lingala. What you can use this language package for: * Translating between English and Lingala * Morphological analysis of English and Lingala * Part-of-speech tagging of English and Lingala For information on the latter two points, see subheading "For more information" below. Requirements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You will need the following software installed: * lttoolbox (>= 3.3.0) * apertium (>= 3.3.0) * vislcg3 (>= 0.9.9.10297) * hfst (>= 3.8.2) * apertium-eng * apertium-lin(github.com) If this does not make any sense, we recommend you look at: apertium.org. Compiling ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given the requirements being installed, you should be able to just run: ```console $ ./configure $ make # make install ``` You can use `./autogen.sh` instead of `./configure` in case you're compiling from source. If you installed any prerequisite language packages using a `--prefix` with `./configure`, make sure to use the same `--prefix` when running `./configure` here. Testing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Current dictionary*: Bidix has about 130 unique entries. I added approximately 95% of words from the story(sourceforge.net) Total of *8 rules* which give correct translations for: 1. prn/np vblex/vbhaver/vbser det n (eg. I see a house) with correct present and past(saw) verb tenses 2. prn/np vblex/vbhaver/vbser pr det adj n(eg. Mary eats in the beautiful garden) 3. and other rules for dealing with the infitive form of a verb, and handling the pro-drop behavior of the language. (*I'll have to create a documentation …