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In Hungarian a word has usually 2500 forms. |
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Therefore a Hungarian dictionary with all forms would contain 1 million * 2500 words, |
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that is 2.5 GWords, approx 20 GBytes, that can not be handled by computers |
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and handling it would make no sense. |
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Yes, hunspell handles that perfectly, it also handles vowel harmony. |
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What about Apertum to handle Hungarian? [[User:Muki987|Muki987]] 10:56, 6 April 2009 (UTC) |
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:I've played about with [[hunmorph]] — one of its limitations iirc is that it cannot do generation, only analysis. My personal preference for handling languages like Hungarian and Finnish etc. is to use something like [[SFST]] (see also [[Omorfi]]). The problem of course is then to get someone to write the actual code. - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 12:21, 6 April 2009 (UTC) |
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In Hungarian there is simply too much to generate. Not sure with Finnish&Turkish&Basque&Persian, but they also have a lot. I give you an example: |
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:Hello, there is not "simply too much to generate", there are languages much more agglutinative than Hungarian that have FST morphologies. For example see [http://www.morphologic.hu/downloads/publications/na/2008_lrec-saltmil_ural_na.pdf this paper]. - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 07:10, 7 April 2009 (UTC) |
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* ház (house) |
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* házhoz to the .. |
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* háztól from the.. |
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* házig up to.. |
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* háznak of the.. |
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* háznál at the |
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* házba into.. |
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* házban in the... |
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* házból from the... |
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* házról about ... |
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* házra on top of the... |
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* házon on the .... |
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* házzá become a ... |
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* házat it (accusativ) - 14 |
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* házam (my house - repeat all previous to this like:) -- 28 |
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** házamhoz ... |
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... |
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** házamat ... |
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* házad (your house repeat all previous to this) -42 |
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* háza (his, her, its house repeat all previous to this) - 56 |
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* házunk (our house repeat all previous to this) -- 70 |
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* házatok (your house repeat all previous to this) - 84 |
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* házuk (their house repeat all previous to this) - 98 |
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* házé (of the house repeat all previous to this) - 112 |
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* házamé (of my house -repeat all previous to this) - 126 |
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... |
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* házuké (of their house -repeat all previous to this) - 210 |
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* házak (plural - repeat all previous for this up to here) 420 |
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... |
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* házacska ( a little house - repeat all prevoius up to here) 840 |
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* házikó ( a little house- repeat all prevoius, except last) 1260 |
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* házas (married- repeat all previous for this up to here, except the last 2) 1680 |
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... |
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* you can see, it is almost trivial to get thousands of words just without a grammar book for each substantive. |
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In my opinion if we get a word, házaitokétól, (which is not unusual) we need an analysis tool, that shows: |
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* házaitokétól (from something of your houses) |
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* this is from ház |
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* it is plural |
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* it suits to the prefix "from" |
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* it suits to "plural you" |
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* the houses own something |
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* the owned thing is singular (otherwise it would be házaitokéitól) |
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With this knowledge we can construct the English (or Spanish, German, etc...) form. [[User:Muki987|Muki987]] 20:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC) |
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::I copied the diskussion with Jimregan onto my discussion page. We can continue there. [[User:Muki987|Muki987]] 10:14, 7 April 2009 (UTC) |
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==Comparison of Omorfi and Hunmorph== |
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===Omorfi=== |
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http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/cgi-bin/omor/omorfi-cgi-demo.py |
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Omorfi - Demo of Finnish Morphology |
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These demos are based on the HFST implementation of Finnish morphology using SFST , and Nykysuomen sanalista . A guesser is used for missing words. For more information see HFST home page |
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Wordform Nykysuomen has no known analyses. The 6 best baseform and paradigm guesses were chosen: |
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<pre> |
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*1. Nykysuomen 32 noun sg nom |
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*2. Nykysuomi 7 noun sg acc |
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*3. Nykysuomi 7 noun sg gen |
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*4. Nykysuomi 7 noun sg ins |
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*5. Nykysuomi 25 noun sg acc |
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*6. Nykysuomi 25 noun sg gen |
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</pre> |
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As far as I can see here: http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Omorfi |
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<pre> |
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$ echo "kaikki ihmiset syntyvät vapaina ja tasavertaisina arvoltaan ja oikeuksiltaan." | fst-proc omorfi/src/omorfi.sfstc |
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^kaikki/kaikki<noun><7><a><sg><nom>$ ^ihmiset/ihminen<noun><38><pl><acc>/ihminen<noun><38><pl><nom>$ |
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^syntyvät/syntyä<verb><52><j><act><pcpva><pl><acc>/syntyä<verb><52><j><act><pcpva><pl><nom>/syntyä<verb><52><j><act><indv><pres><pl3>$ |
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^vapaina/vapaa<noun><17><pl><ess>$ |
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^ja/*ja$ ^tasavertaisina/*tasavertaisina$ ^arvoltaan/arvo<noun><1><sg><abl><pl3>/arvo<noun><1><sg><abl><sg3>$ ^ja/*ja$ |
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^oikeuksiltaan/oikeus<noun><40><pl><abl><pl3>/oikeus<noun><40><pl><abl><sg3>$. |
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</pre> |
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Omorfi also analyses and that's it. I do not see any difference to hunmorph, do you? [[User:Muki987|Muki987]] 21:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC) |
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===Hunmorph=== |
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<pre> |
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$ echo "ablakot" | ocamorph --aff lexicons/morphdb.hu/out/morphdb_hu.aff --dic lexicons/morphdb.hu/out/morphdb_hu.dic |
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</pre> |
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and you get |
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<pre> |
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> ablakot ablak/NOUN> |
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</pre> |
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This is pretty much the same IMHO, what Omorfi produces. What so you think? [[User:Muki987|Muki987]] 21:28, 6 April 2009 (UTC) |
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::The difference is that in Omorfi, you can go the other way. From |
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:::<code>^syntyä<verb><52><j><act><pcpva><pl><acc>$</code> → <code>syntyvät</code> |
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::Can you do that in hunmorph? It was my understanding that you couldn't. - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 07:10, 7 April 2009 (UTC) |
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:::Btw, if you want to look at an agglutinative language pair currently in SVN, check out [[Northern Sámi and Lule Sámi]] — the transducers were generated from full-form lists, which is not the ideal way to do it. A better way would have been to somehow compile the XFST source code using a free compiler (for example SFST/HFST), but unfortunately that isn't possible yet :( - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 07:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC) |
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==Moses== |
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I compared Moses to Apertium, and as far as I can see, Apertium is much better, cleaner, more usable. Moses is like google translation, not bad in certain situations, but will never have acceptable quality. Unfortunately. |
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==Matxin== |
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Unfortunately I can not read Spanish. I can read English, Hungarian, German. |
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If anybody translated to English (using apertium,) would be a great help for me. |
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:We have Catalan→English, Welsh→English, Spanish→English, Galician→English. - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 07:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC) |
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===Hungarian-whatever (inflecting)=== |
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However, I have an imagination of Hungarian-whatever-Hungarian translation. |
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A Hungarian sentence would be preprocessed, and each word would be added the morphological analysis result. |
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For example: |
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Ma megyek a házba. (Today (ma) I go (megyek) into the house (a házba)) |
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I get with hunmorph for this: |
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> ma |
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ma/ADV |
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ma/NOUN |
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> megyek |
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megy/VERB<PERS<1>> |
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> a |
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a/ART |
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> házba |
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ház/NOUN<CAS<ILL>> |
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I would enter this to apertium, |
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I would expect a usable translation for non-agglutinative languages, and some output, that hunmorph could again translate back into more readable form for agglutinative languages. |
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:Not even any need for a pre-process, there is no reason why we cannot replace the Apertium morphological analyser with hunmorph (apart from the fact that it is written in Ocaml and slow!) ;). If you're interested in doing this I'll look at converting the output of hunmorph to apertium 'standard' (see [[Apertium stream format]]). - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 07:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC) |
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::I wonder why ocaml is that slow. It is a compilable language, being as fast, as C/C++. Also, hunpos, that delivers also word types, works much faster (is also an ocaml project!). [[User:Muki987|Muki987]] 12:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC) |
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::Is there somewhere a system documentation of apertium, that would speed up my understandig of it's structure and logic? I believe, apertium is the right project for me, and I should like get first a system overview. Thanks. [[User:Muki987|Muki987]] 12:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC) |
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===Whatever (inflecting) -Hungarian=== |
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I go into the house |
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Apertium knows from the rules: |
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I go = megyek |
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the: a |
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Into the house: ház/NOUN<CAS<ILL>> ->hunlex or whatever translates into: házba |
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What do you think? |
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[[User:Muki987|Muki987]] 20:59, 7 April 2009 (UTC) |
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:Yep, no problem. - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 07:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC) |