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).
apertium-tagger(1),
lt-comp(1),
lt-expand(1),
lt-proc(1)
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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