Development

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Wacky ideas

Interested in hacking on a module for apertium that expands the functionality, and the quality of translations that we can generate? Take a look at the following topics:

• Earley-based structural transfer for Apertium
• Prefixes and infixes
• Agglutination and compounds
• Agglutination
• Compounds
• Separable verbs
• Named entity recognition
• Word sense disambiguation
• Orthographic normalisation
• Projects — possible outlines for academic projects.
• Translated IRC! - Here is an XChat script which allows you to translate IRC conversations on the fly, using Apertium.

For a more general idea of what is currently on our development list, see:

• General to-do list

Evaluation

• Evaluating with Wikipedia

Other stuff

• Dictionary maintenance
• Release policy
• Unicode issues
• Making a release
• Lttoolbox
• Mixed modes
• Using the Apertium GIT repository
• New Apertium website: recent updates, suggestions, etc.
• Promotion HQ — promotion is development too!
• Emacs C style for Apertium hacking