[libvoikko] [Apertium-stuff] Lttoolbox (Apertium) morphology backend

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer]

2010/2/27 Francis Tyers <ftyers at prompsit.com>:
> El ds 27 de 02 de 2010 a les 23:55 +0200, en/na Harri Pitkänen va
> escriure:
>> On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Harri Pitkänen wrote:
>> > If I remember correctly, Apertium is already in Debian. I could take a
>> >  look  next week and see what can be done.
>>
>> Well, I didn't wait until next week but implemented the backend already. You
>> can try this by using the sources in SVN:
>
> Wow great!!
>
>> - On Debian unstable install packages lttoolbox, liblttoolbox3-3.1-0,
>> liblttoolbox3-3.1-0-dev
>> - Check out SVN sources
>> - ./autogen.sh
>> - ./configure --prefix=/some/dir --enable-lttoolbox
>> - make install
>> - Copy stuff from http://www.puimula.org/htp/testing/apertium/ to
>>   ~/.voikko/2/mor-apertium/
>>
>> Now you should have a dictionary variant "apertium" available. The test
>> dictionary was copied from
>> http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Lttoolbox#Using_as_a_library
>> and it recognizes words "car" and "cars". Event the spelling suggestions work:
>>
>> $ /some/dir/bin/voikkospell -d apertium -s
>> car
>> C: car
>> cara
>> W: cara
>> S: cars
>> S: car
>>
>>
>> I must say I was quite impressed on how easy this was. No compilation
>> problems, no license hassles (Apertium uses exactly the same license as
>> libvoikko), easy to use API. API documentation was a bit hard to find though.
>
> :)
>
>> I also tried to build some of the real word dictionaries but could not figure
>> out which one would work and how it should be used.
>
> You can grab the dictionary from:
>
> http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-br-fr/apertium-br-fr.br-fr.dix

I think this should be
http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-br-fr/apertium-br-fr.br.dix
for Breton (and not of the translational dictionary) ;-)

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Kevin Brubeck Unhammer