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Documentation

• Using SVN — cheatsheet on how to use SVN for users and developers.
• Apertium New Language Pair HOWTO — step-by-step description of how to start a new language pair in Apertium.
  • Créer une nouvelle paire de langues
  • Uputstvo za novi jezički par za Apertium
  • Апертиум, как се създава нова езикова двойка
• Building dictionaries — some tips and tricks for building dictionaries.
• Tagger training — how to train your part-of-speech tagger.
• Contributing to an existing pair — some pointers for contributing to an existing pair.
• Cookbook — code-snippets for various "hard to work out" phenomena in some languages and families.
• Roadmap — some ideas for where we are heading, we welcome suggestions!
• Frequently Asked Questions — what it says in the link.
• Apertium on Windows

Available translation pairs (translators)

Main article: List of language pairs

Release versions of these translators can be tested on xixona, alpha versions at most twelve hours old from SVN can be tested on ilazki and xixona. A graph of the bilingual dictionary entries between the pairs can be found here.

Catalan-Romanian (ca-ro)* Welsh-English (cy-en)** English-Afrikaans (en-af)** English-Catalan (en-ca)** English-Galician (en-gl)* Tajik-English (tg-en)*

Spanish-Catalan (es-ca)* Spanish-Romanian (es-ro)** French-Catalan (fr-ca)** French-Spanish (fr-es)** English-German (en-de)** SerboCroatian-Macedonian (sh-mk)*

French-Dutch (fr-nl)** Indonesian-Malaysian (id-ms)* Occitan-Catalan (oc-ca)** Swedish-Danish (sv-da)* English-Dutch (en-nl)** Spanish-Italian (es-it) Spanish-Basque (es-eu) Spanish-Portuguese (es-pt)

^* denotes fairly inactive development status, ^** denotes active development status.

We're always looking for developers, but particularly for fairly inactive pairs (marked with single '*'). Contact us!

Resources

Code snippets

If you've written some stuff for Apertium but haven't got round to actually making a language pair, feel free to make a new page for the language in question and paste it there. Stuff like basic dictionaries, paradigms, rules, hacks etc. are all welcome.

General

• ACLWiki :: List of resources by language

Staying in touch

• apertium-stuff — mailing list.
• irc.freenode.net #apertium (you can use our CGI::IRC client, or, if you use Mozilla, Firefox or Seamonkey, you may try typing irc://irc.freenode.net/#apertium, which will start the Chatzilla client)
  • There are helper bots on irc: radnik and eleda
• If you find a bug, report it in bugzilla!

Wacky ideas

• Earley-based structural transfer for Apertium
• Prefixes and infixes
• General to-do list
• Agglutination and compounds

Misc

• References to Apertium
• Dictionary maintenance
• Dutch monodix
• Package refactoring
• Release policy
• Unicode issues
• Language and pair maintainer
• Promotion HQ
• Making a release
• Lttoolbox
• Mixed modes
• Howto install on Ubuntu
• Translation problems between romance and germanic languages

Discussions

• Basque to Spanish
• Afrikaans to English
• French-Catalan

See also

• http://apertium.sourceforge.net/