Indirect contribution guide
Many people come to us with a question like "I'm not a programmer/linguist/whatever. Is there any way I can contribute?". This document is intended to show how you can make an "indirect" contribution, by documenting language resources, helping us to build bilingual test sets, translating, promoting, etc.
Contents
About This Tutorial
This tutorial will teach you:
- How to creating contrastive analyses.
- How to catalog resources.
- How to convert dictionaries.
- How to translate.
- How to help "Apertium" in other ways .
Create contrastive analyses
What you must do
The contrastive analyses is most difficult work about translating in "Apertium". Contrastive analyses is difference between two languages. Your task is to make sentences in the first language and translating to the other. You must also give English translation.
You must translate:
1 Simple syntax 1.1 Copula 1.2 Reported speech 1.3 Clitic placement
2 Pronouns 2.1 Personal 2.2 Demonstrative 2.3 Relative 2.4 Possesive 2.5 Reflexive 2.6 Interrogative
3 Nouns 3.1 General 3.2 Indefinite and definite forms 3.3 1 Noun phrases 3.4 Indefinite (a, some) 3.5 Definite (the) 3.6 Demonstrative (this, that) 3.7 Quantified (a few, no, all)
2 Numerals
2.1 Cardinal
2.2 Ordinal
5 Adjective 5.1 Comparative 5.2 Superlative
6 Adverbs
7 Verbs 7.1 To be 7.2 General 7.3 Indicative mood 7.3.1 Present tense 7.3.2 Imperfect tense 7.3.3 Aorist tense 7.3.4 Perfect tense 7.3.5 Pluperfect tense 7.3.6 Future tense 7.4 Conditional mood 7.5 Imperative mood
8 Questions
If you want you can also add 9 Interjections 10 Punctuation marks
How can you do it
It is only easy if you know the both languages,but if you don't know them I will give you some tips, that you can help you with your work.