English and Kazakh

Starting work on Apertium English to Kazakh

These notes are basically for Anel, Aizan and Assem who have started to develop this language pair...

Installing what is needed

Operating System

Install a suitable GNU/Linux system such as Debian, Ubuntu, Mint...

Install build essentials, etc.

Open a terminal window and type

sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential g++ pkg-config gawk libxml2 \
libxml2-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc flex automake autoconf libtool libpcre3-dev  

enter your password and Wait till the packages are downloaded and installed.

Install HFST

This language pair uses the Helsinki Finite State Toolkit for Kazakh generation, so we need to install it.

Install OpenFST

Main article: OpenFST

wget http://www.openfst.org/twiki/pub/FST/FstDownload/openfst-1.3.1.tar.gz &&
tar -xzvf openfst-1.3.1.tar.gz &&
cd openfst-1.3.1/ &&
./configure &&
make &&
sudo make install

Install Foma

Main article: Foma

Install HFST

Main article: HFST

Download apertium, lttoolbox and eng-kaz data from SVN

cd ~ 
mkdir apertium-sources
cd apertium-sources
svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox
svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium
svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/incubator/apertium-eng-kaz

Compile and install lttoolbox

cd lttoolbox/
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Compile and install apertium

cd ..
cd apertium/
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Install English--Kazakh language pair data from incubator

cd ..
cd apertium-eng-kaz/
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install