Apertium translation pair for English and Lingala
English and Lingala: `apertium-eng-lin`
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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
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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
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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
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*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 …