Apertium bilingual pair for English-Kikamba
eng-kam
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This is an Apertium bilingual language package for English-Kikamba. What
you can use this language package for:
* Morphological analysis of English/Kikamba
* Morphological generation of English/Kikamba
* Translation between English and Kikamba, currently supports translations of noun phrases the following form:
- {DetPrN/PossPrN}{Adj}{Noun} {Noun}{Adj}{DetPrN/PossPrN}
Requirements
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You will need the following software installed:
* `lttoolbox` (>= 3.3.0)
* `apertium` (>= 3.3.0)
If this does not make any sense, we recommend you look at: www.apertium.org
Compiling
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Given the requirements being installed, you should be able to just run:
`$ sudo chmod +x translate.sh`
`$ ./translate.sh --build`
Testing
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If you are in the source directory after building, the following
commands should work:
`$ ./translate.sh`
- Translate Kikamba NPs into English NPs
`$ ./translate.sh -e`
- Translate English NPs into Kikamba NPs
`$ ./translate.sh --help`
- For help with arguments
Currently supported arguments:
* `0`: force a one-time translation in the opposite direction
* `1`: show morphological analysis
* `2`: show morphological analysis and pretagging
* `3`: show morphological analysis, pretagging, and disambiguation
* `4`: show transferred but ungenerated morphemes
Files and data
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* `eng.dix`
- Monolingual English dictionary
* `eng-kam.t1x`
- English -> Kikamba structural transfer rules
* `kam.dix`
- Monolingual Kikamba dictionary
* `kam-eng.dix`
- Bilingual Kikamba & English dictionary
* `kam-eng.t1x`
- Kikamba -> English structural transfer rules
* `nc …