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==Todo==
==Todo==


===Irish dictionary===
* Add ability to analyse initial mutations to the monolingual dictionary.

⚫
* Add all closed categories to the monolingual dictionaries.
# <s>put the paradigms in 1 entry-per-line format</s>
* Improve the tagger -- write restrictions/constraints, and then retrain.
# noun paradigms
⚫
* Perform an intersection on the monolingual dictionaries.
## some have only one entry -- these are defective? -- e.g. <code>bá__n_m</code>
⚫
** We only want stuff in the Irish analyser that we can translate into Scottish Gaelic -- so, in order for a word to be included, it should be in both the Irish monolingual, bilingual and the translation in the Scottish Gaelic monolingual. With the words for which we don't have translations we can just comment them out for now.
## some have three entries -- defective also? -- e.g. <code>band/ia__n_m</code>
# verb paradigms
## sort the entries so that the order makes sense
## <s>is there an imperative p1.sg ???</s>
# adjective paradigms
## some paradigms have more entries than others, e.g. <code>ca/s__adj</code> has 3, and <code>bré/an__adj</code> has 4
# are some proper nouns marked with common noun paradigms instead of proper noun paradigms ?
## find out with <code>cat apertium-ga-gd.ga.dix | grep '<e lm="[A-Z]'</code>
# sort the entries in the <section id="main"> by a) part-of-speech, b) alphabetical order
# i think we're missing possessives and demonstratives, quantifiers and perhaps some definite/indefinite pronouns

==Old todo==

⚫
* '''Perform an intersection on the monolingual dictionaries. (Making them consistent)'''
⚫
** We only want stuff in the Irish analyser that we can translate into Scottish Gaelic -- so, in order for a word to be included, it should be in both the Irish monolingual, bilingual and the translation in the Scottish Gaelic monolingual. With the words for which we don't have translations we can just comment them out -- or move them to a separate file in <code>dev/</code>
⚫
* Add all missing closed categories to the monolingual dictionaries.
* Do some fixing of the bilingual dictionary
* Do some fixing of the bilingual dictionary
** There are some entries with unknown gender on the Scottish Gaelic side.
** Some restrictions probably need adding.
** Some restrictions probably need adding.
** Some conjunctions are marked "cnj" and not subdivided for "cnjcoo", "cnjsub" etc.
** Some conjunctions are marked "cnj" and not subdivided for "cnjcoo", "cnjsub" etc.
* Making constraint grammar rules more CG-like
* Write rules to do initial mutations for generation.
* Write rules to do initial mutations for generation.
* Write some transfer rules.
* Write some transfer rules.
** For example to do tenses, number agreement, etc.
** For example to do tenses, number agreement, etc.


==Tagger==
==Testing==




* [[/Regression tests]]
* [[/Pending tests]]


==See also==
==See also==


* [[Scottish Gaelic]]
* [[Scottish Gaelic]]

==Notes==
<references/>


==External links==
==External links==


* E. Uí Dhonnchadha and J. Van Genabith (2006) "[http://www.sdjt.si/bib/lrec06/pdf/193_pdf.pdf A Part-of-speech tagger for Irish using Finite-State Morphology and Constraint Grammar Disambiguation]".
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Scottish_Gaelic_and_Irish Wikipedia: Differences between Scottish Gaelic and Irish]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Scottish_Gaelic_and_Irish Wikipedia: Differences between Scottish Gaelic and Irish]
* [http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/ga-ge/coimeas.html Comparison of Irish and Scottish Gaelic]
* [http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/ga-ge/faclair.html Faclair Gàidhlig-Gaeilge]


[[Category:Language pairs]]
[[Category:Scottish Gaelic and Irish|*]]

Latest revision as of 09:59, 8 May 2011

Todo[edit]

Irish dictionary[edit]

  1. put the paradigms in 1 entry-per-line format
  2. noun paradigms
    1. some have only one entry -- these are defective? -- e.g. bá__n_m
    2. some have three entries -- defective also? -- e.g. band/ia__n_m
  3. verb paradigms
    1. sort the entries so that the order makes sense
    2. is there an imperative p1.sg ???
  4. adjective paradigms
    1. some paradigms have more entries than others, e.g. ca/s__adj has 3, and bré/an__adj has 4
  5. are some proper nouns marked with common noun paradigms instead of proper noun paradigms ?
    1. find out with cat apertium-ga-gd.ga.dix | grep '<e lm="[A-Z]'
  6. sort the entries in the <section id="main"> by a) part-of-speech, b) alphabetical order
  7. i think we're missing possessives and demonstratives, quantifiers and perhaps some definite/indefinite pronouns

Old todo[edit]

  • Perform an intersection on the monolingual dictionaries. (Making them consistent)
    • We only want stuff in the Irish analyser that we can translate into Scottish Gaelic -- so, in order for a word to be included, it should be in both the Irish monolingual, bilingual and the translation in the Scottish Gaelic monolingual. With the words for which we don't have translations we can just comment them out -- or move them to a separate file in dev/
  • Add all missing closed categories to the monolingual dictionaries.
  • Do some fixing of the bilingual dictionary
    • Some restrictions probably need adding.
    • Some conjunctions are marked "cnj" and not subdivided for "cnjcoo", "cnjsub" etc.
  • Making constraint grammar rules more CG-like
  • Write rules to do initial mutations for generation.
  • Write some transfer rules.
    • For example to do tenses, number agreement, etc.

Testing[edit]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]


External links[edit]

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