apertium — machine
translation application platform
apertium |
[-au] [-d
datadir] [-f
format] language-pair
[infile [outfile]] |
apertium is the application that most
people will be using as it simplifies the use of apertium/lt-toolbox tools
for machine translation purposes.
This tool tries to ease the use of
lt-toolbox
(which contains all the lexical processing modules and tools) and
apertium
(which contains the rest of the engine) by providing a unique front-end to
the end-user.
The different modules behind the apertium machine translation
architecture are in order:
- de-formatter
- Separates the text to be translated from the format information.
- morphological-analyser
- Tokenizes the text in surface forms.
- part-of-speech tagger
- Chooses one surface forms among homographs.
- lexical transfer module
- Reads each source-language lexical form and delivers a corresponding
target-language lexical form.
- structural transfer module
- Detects fixed-length patterns of lexical forms (chunks or phrases) needing
special processing due to grammatical divergences between the two
languages and performs the corresponding transformations.
- morphological generator
- Delivers a target-language surface form for each target-language lexical
form, by suitably inflecting it.
- post-generator
- Performs orthographical operations such as contractions and
apostrophations.
- re-formatter
- Restores the format information encapsulated by the de-formatter into the
translated text and removes the encapsulation sequences used to protect
certain characters in the source text.
-d
datadir- The directory holding the linguistic data. By default it will use the
expected installation path.
- language-pair
- The language pair:
LANG1–LANG2 (for
instance “es-ca” or “ca-es”).
-f
format- Specifies the format of the input and output files which can have these
values:
txt- (default
value) Input and output files are in text format.
html- Input and output files are in “html” format. This
“html” is the one accepted by the vast majority of web
browsers.
html-noent- Input and output files are in “html” format, but
preserving native encoding characters rather than using HTML text
entities.
rtf- Input and output files are in “rtf” format. The accepted
“rtf” is the one generated by Microsoft WordPad and
Microsoft Office up to and including Office 97.
-u- Disable marking of unknown words with the
‘
*’ character.
-H- Enable header-detection (only used in some language pairs; will lead to
stray ‘
❡’ characters in pairs
that don't support it).
-a- Enable marking of disambiguated words with the
‘
=’ character.
These are the two files that can be used with this command:
-m
memory.tmx- use a translation memory to recycle translations
-o
direction- translation direction using the translation memory, by default
“direction” is used instead
-l- lists the available translation directions and exits direction typically,
LANG1–LANG2, but see
modes.xml in language data
- infile
- Input file (
stdin by
default).
- outfile
- Output file (
stdout by
default).
Copyright © 2005, 2006 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad
de Alicante. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under
the terms of the
GNU General Public License.
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