Apertium Turkic/TODO

This is a general to-do list for the Apertium Turkic working group.

Website

This section outlines what's left to get http://turkic.apertium.com/ up and running.

software infrastructure

• Get apertium-apy working stably
• merge simple-html and html-tools so that simple-html can be automatically extracted from html-tools
• apache forwarding for html-tools (unnecessary!)
• init scripts and cron testers for apertium-html-tools, gateway, and apertium-apy
  • find some way to have it retry restarting if it fails because the port is still reserved by the OS

optional: spell checker and language detection stuff

• spell checking mode in apertium-apy
• integrate spell checker interface into html-tools
• get language detection interface working (in progress)
• language detection mode in apertium-apy (prototype done)

what to include

make the following pairs available to the site:

• pairs: kaz-tat, tur-kir, kaz-kir, tat-bak, kaz-kaa, tuk-tur?, tur-uzb?, kaz-eng?
• transducers: kaz, tat, kir, tur, bak, chv, kum, nog, kaa, uzb?, tuk?

prettifying

• localised language names in analysis, generation, and spell-check modes
• get a working theme together
• make sandbox mode disabled unless an appropriate switch is passed to apertium-html-tools
• add a note (localised to various languages) along the lines of "Found a mistake? Help us fix it!" with link to Apertium Turkic

future

• consider including the web concordancer on the site (and consider what corpora to provide search access to...)

Things that need to be figured out

• How can we count lexc stems effectively? - JNW's bash script can be generalised (and rewritten in python), and it'll come close

Issues introduced by new build process

• How can we do single-category testvoc now?
• How can we make vanilla transducers (without MT-specific "wrong" POSes)
• How can we count trimmed stems?