A long introduction to transfer rules

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Writing transfer rules seems to be tricky. People generally understand the basic concepts, but they struggle with the formalism. We think the formalism isn't that bad. And compared to many other formalisms,[1] it's fairly straightforward.

Some formalities

Lexical transfer and structural transfer

Apertium 1

Otisla si tiho i bez pozdrava

Lexical transfer

Apertium 3

Resorni je ministar navlačio ljude, kaže sejte biljku zelenu i čudo će da bude

Lexical transfer

Notes

  1. e.g. Matxin, OpenLogos, ...