Asturian

Tasks

• Pre-requisites
  • Frequency ordered wordlist
• Asturian morphological analyser
  • High frequency closed categories (freq. >= 50/23000) — pronouns, determiners, prepositions, etc.
  • 2,000 highest frequency words from each open category (noun, verb, adjective, adverb)
  • Frequent multi-words
• Bilingual dictionary
  • Translations of each Asturian word into Spanish
  • Translations of Asturian multi-words

Resources

• Asturian Wiktionary — 120 nouns + genders + plural forms

Retrieved all pages, converted into speling format, and derived paradigms.

• Asturian Wikipedia:

# Make the file so that each line starts with a determiner
cat ast.crp.txt  | sed 's/el /\nel /g' | sed 's/la /\nla /g' | sed 's/lo /\nlo /g' | sed 's/las /\nlas /g' | sed 's/les /\nles /g' | sed 's/los /\nlos /g' > ast.dets.txt
# Grep out the determiners
cat ast.dets.txt  | grep -e '^el' -e '^la' -e '^lo' -e '^les' -e '^las' -e '^los' > dets.txt
# Grep out the lines starting with feminine determiners in plural followed by one word (hopefully a noun)
cat dets.txt | grep '^les' | sort  | grep -v 'les y' | cut -f1,2 -d' ' | sort -u > det.les.txt
# Grep out the lines starting with feminine determiners in singular followed by one word (hopefully a noun)
cat dets.txt | grep '^la' | sort | grep -v 'la súa' | cut -f1,2 -d' ' | sort -u > det.la.txt
# Combine the two previous files
cat det.la.txt det.les.txt > det.la_les.txt
# Get extract style paradigms from existing dictionary
python /home/fran/scripts/apertium2extract.py /home/fran/svnroot/apertium/trunk/incubator/apertium-es-ast.ast.dix  > EXT.PDMS.FEM.TXT
# Apply extract to the wordlist (hopefully) with only singular+plural feminine nouns
extract -nobad -utf8 -e -u -id EXT.PDMS.FEM.TXT det.la_les.txt  | awk -F' ' '{print $2"; "$1"; "$3}' | sort -u > extract.la_les.out.txt
# Grep out the lines where both singular + plural were found
cat extract.la_les.out.txt | grep ',' > EX.txt 
# Re-organise lines
cat EX.txt | sed 's/;/\t/g' | awk '{print $3"; "$2"; "$1}' | sed 's/;/\t\t\t/g'

Example output

(abdicación,abdicaciones)                        espresi/ón__n                           abdicaci
(abegosa,abegoses)                               páxin/a__n                              abegos
(abeya,abeyes)                                   páxin/a__n                              abey
(Academia,Academias)                             imaxe__n                                Academia
(academia,academies)                             páxin/a__n                              academi
(acción,acciones)                                espresi/ón__n                           acci

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