Languages

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Languages is a module of the SVN where monolingual language data lives. Monolingual language data in Apertium is slowly being moved to this new repository scheme. If you feel something is missing, please feel free to contact us.

New monolingual packages should be developed in incubator until they're minimally useful, at which point they can go in languages. There is no fixed criterion for what constitutes a minimally-useful language package; generally, however, a language package should have over 60% coverage on a variety of corpora and should probably have at least 2500 stems to be considered minimally useful.

The languages module can be found in svn at https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/languages .

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Languages by coverage

Module	Language	Entries	Coverage
apertium-bak	Bashkir	46,501	~66%
apertium-bul	Bulgarian	8,578	-
apertium-chv	Chuvash	10,267	~85%
apertium-dan	Danish	52,133	-
apertium-gla	Scottish Gaelic	-	-
apertium-hbs	Serbo-Croatian	58,004	-
apertium-hye	Armenian	-	-
apertium-kaz	Kazakh	36,595	~94.5%
apertium-kir	Kyrgyz	14,424	~90.4%
apertium-kum	Kumyk	4,918	~90.2%
apertium-lvs	Latvian	-	-
apertium-mkd	Macedonian	30,686	-
apertium-mlt	Maltese	-	-
apertium-nog	Nogay	1,385	~81.4%
apertium-nob	Norwegian Bokmål	246,281	-
apertium-nno	Norwegian Nynorsk	182,497	-
apertium-rus	Russian	126,833	-
apertium-sqi	Albanian	-	-
apertium-slv	Slovenian	20,596	-
apertium-tat	Tatar	55,702	~91%
apertium-tuk	Turkmen	2,988	~70.7%
apertium-urd	Ukrainian	10,709	-
apertium-urd	Urdu	-	-
apertium-uzb	Uzbek	34,470	~82.9%

Languages by family

• Turkic:
  • Oghuz: Turkmen
  • Kypchak: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashqort, Kumyk, Nogay
  • Other: Uzbek, Chuvash
• Indo-European
  • Slavic: Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Czech, Bulgarian, Ukranian
  • Celtic: Scottish Gaelic
  • Germanic
    • West Germanic: Dutch
    • North Germanic: Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian (nno, nob), Swedish, Faroese
  • Indic: Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit
  • Baltic: Latvian
  • Other: Albanian, Armenian, Greek
• Semitic: Maltese

Requiring a monolingual package as a dependency of a pair

Say you want apertium-fie-bar to depend on some monolingual data from the apertium-bar package, e.g. apertium-bar/bar.rlx and maybe other such files.

This requires a recent version of apertium (-r48374 or later), and that you've exported PKG_CONFIG_PATH as described at Minimal_installation_from_SVN.

Assuming apertium-bar is set up correctly (see next section), you can put the following line into the configure.ac of apertium-fie-bar:

AP_CHECK_LING([2], [apertium-bar])

and in the Makefile.am, you can write rules like this:

bar-fie.lrx.bin: $(AP_SRC2)/bar.lrx
	lrx-comp $< $@

bar-tat.automorf.bin: $(AP_LIB2)/bar.automorf.bin
	cp $< $@

Similarly for apertium-fie (with AP_CHECK_LING([1], [apertium-fie])). By convention, a language pair called apertium-fie-bar should use the number 1 for fie and 2 for bar (though variants like 1b are possible too). Also by convention, AP_SRC should point to source files and AP_LIB to compiled binaries (this is the responsibility of the monolingual package, e.g. apertium-bar).

Now if you've typed "make install" in apertium-bar before running autogen.sh in apertium-fie-bar, apertium-fie-bar will use the bar.lrx and bar.automorf.bin which are installed by apertium-bar.

If you often make a lot of changes to apertium-bar and want to avoid having to "make install" for each and every change, you can do this in apertium-fie-bar:

./autogen.sh --with-lang2=/path/to/apertium-bar

Now each time you make, the "AP_SRC2" and "AP_LIB2" variables will both point to /path/to/apertium-bar instead of the "make install"-ed files. You can set it back to default by just running plain autogen.sh (or ./configure) again.

See Installation_troubleshooting#AP_CHECK_LING_not_found_when_running_configure_or_autogen.sh if you run into errors about AP_CHECK_LING.

Making a monolingual package dependable for pairs

In apertium-bar, there should be a file apertium-bar.pc.in. This has to have the following lines:

dir=@libdir@/apertium/apertium-bar
srcdir=@datarootdir@/apertium/apertium-bar

These should correspond to where the binaries and source files respectively are installed by the Makefile.am in the monolingual package (typically the makefile names these directories apertium_bardir and apertium_bar_srcdir).

The configure.ac should have a line saying something like AC_OUTPUT([Makefile apertium-bar.pc]). See https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/languages/apertium-nob for a working example.

Compiled / binary files should be listed in TARGETS_COMMON as usual, while any source files can be installed using install-data-local, e.g.:

apertium_bar_srcdir=$(prefix)/share/apertium/$(BASENAME)/
install-data-local:
	test -d $(DESTDIR)$(apertium_bar_srcdir) || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(apertium_bar_srcdir)
	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(BASENAME).$(LANG1).dix $(DESTDIR)$(apertium_bar_srcdir)

Now if the apertium-fie-bar pair depends on apertium-bar as its lang2, it can refer to binaries (apertium-bar's TARGETS_COMMON) using $(AP_LIB2) and source files using $(AP_SRC2), e.g. $(AP_SRC2)/apertium-$(LANG2).$(LANG2).dix for the dix file in the install-data-local example above.

See also

• Incubator
• Nursery
• Staging