Begiak

begiak is the irc bot in the #apertium irc channel. Its primary function is to report svn updates to various relevant repositories, but it serves some other purposes too.

Background

Begiak was set up as a phenny bot by conor_f for GCI 2012. It runs on apertium.vm.bytemark.co.uk.

Begiak means "the eye" in Basque.

Repositories monitored

• apertium.svn.sourceforge.net

AI Features

• .at ... lg1 lg2 — Apertium translate
• .awik — Search for something on Apertium wiki
• .c — Query Google calculator
• .ety — Look up the etymology of a word
• .g — Search on Google
• .gc — Get the number of results on Google
• .in — Set a reminder
• .py — Evaluate an expression in python (This runs as a sandboxed web service, not on your computer)
• .t — Return the current time
• .title — Get the title of a link
• .u — Search for a unicode character
• .wa — Query Wolfram Alpha
• .wik — Search for something on Wikipedia
• begiak: tell nick something — Send a message to nick
• begiak: "parlez-vous français"? — Translate a phrase (google translate)