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Revision as of 21:28, 1 June 2009
This page intends to give a step-by-step walk-through of how to create a new translator in the Matxin platform.
Prerequisites
- Main article: Matxin
This page does not give instructions on installing Matxin, but presumes that the following packages are correctly installed.
Overview
As mentioned in the lead, this page intends to give a step-by-step guide to creating a new language pair with Matxin from scratch. No programming knowledge is required, all that needs to be defined are some dictionaries and grammars. The Matxin platform is described in detail in Documentation of Matxin and on the Matxin homepage. This page will only focus on the creation of a new language pair, and will avoid theoretical and methodological issues.
Analysis
The analysis process in Matxin is done by Freeling, an free / open-source suite of language analysers. The analysis is done in four stages, requiring four (or more) separate files. The first is the morphological dictionary, which is basically a full-form list (e.g. Speling format) compiled into a BerkeleyDB format. There are then files for word-category disambiguation and for specifying chunking and dependency rules.
