English and Kazakh

Starting work on Apertium English to Kazakh

These notes are basically for Anel, Aizan and Assem who have started to develop this language pair...

Installing what is needed

Operating System

Install a suitable GNU/Linux system such as Debian, Ubuntu, Mint...

Install build essentials, etc.

Open a terminal window and type

sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential g++ pkg-config gawk libxml2 \
libxml2-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc flex automake autoconf libtool libpcre3-dev cmake libicu-dev libboost-dev libgoogle-perftools-dev

enter your password and Wait till the packages are downloaded and installed.

Install VISLCG3

svn co http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/svn/visl/tools/vislcg3/trunk vislcg3
cd vislcg3
./cmake.sh 
make -j3
make install

Install HFST

This language pair uses the Helsinki Finite State Toolkit for Kazakh generation, so we need to install it, and its dependencies.

Install OpenFST

Main article: OpenFST

wget http://www.openfst.org/twiki/pub/FST/FstDownload/openfst-1.3.1.tar.gz &&
tar -xzvf openfst-1.3.1.tar.gz &&
cd openfst-1.3.1/ &&
./configure &&
make &&
sudo make install

Install Foma

Main article: Foma

svn checkout http://foma.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/foma/ foma 
cd foma
make
sudo make install

Install HFST

Main article: HFST

svn co https://hfst.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hfst/trunk/hfst3
cd hfst3/
autoreconf -i
./configure --enable-lexc --with-foma
make
make install
sudo ldconfig

Download apertium, lttoolbox and eng-kaz data from SVN

cd ~ 
mkdir apertium-sources
cd apertium-sources
svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox
svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium
svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/incubator/apertium-eng-kaz

Compile and install lttoolbox

cd lttoolbox/
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Compile and install apertium

cd ..
cd apertium/
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Install English--Kazakh language pair data from incubator

cd ..
cd apertium-eng-kaz/
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install