User:Mlforcada/Sandbox/basque

How to improve Apertium-eu-es 0.3

These are some notes on how to improve apertium-eu-es 0.3 so that its performance improves for assimilation purposes and its maintenance is easier for future developers.

Lexical coverage

Lexical coverage may be improved in different ways:

Regular vocabulary

• Collect large corpora of basque news text and search for unknown words (as has been done for version 0.3)

• Using possible new vocabulary from the new version of Matxin

• Using existing vocabulary (esp. multiword lexical units or MWLUs) in current dictionaries of apertium-eu-es, especially tagging and activating untagged MWLUs.

Proper names

• Including massive lists of proper names (place names "gazeteer", person names, etc.).

• Using some kind of guesser for proper names so that we don't have to include them in the dictionary.

Structural transfer =

Verb chunks

We need to have paradigms for the potential ("ezan") and other verb structures. Perhaps we can use information in Matxin for this and other analytical verb forms.