Faroese and English

A test pair using Matxin for the transfer step.

Download from:

https://matxin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matxin/branches/matxin-fo-en

Needs VISL CG-3 from SVN and hacked Matxin:

https://matxin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matxin/branches/matxin

Good luck!

Notes for developers

The pipeline looks like this:

 lt-proc -w fo-en.automorf.bin |\
 cg-proc -w fo-en.dis.rlx.bin |\
 apertium-tagger -pg fo-en.prob |\
 cg-proc -wf2 fo-en.dep.rlx.bin |\
 matxin-xfer-lex -s fo-en.en_sem.bin -c matxin-fo-en.fo-en.chunk_type.dat fo-en.autobil.bin |\
 matxin-gen-intra matxin-fo-en.en.order_intrachunk.dat matxin-fo-en.en.changes_sint.dat |\
 matxin-gen-inter matxin-fo-en.en.order_interchunk.dat |\
 matxin-gen-morph fo-en.autogen.bin |\
 matxin-reformat

Writing a dependency grammar CG for Matxin

End your file with something like this:

 
AFTER-SECTIONS 

SUBSTITUTE (@SUBJ→)   (@SUBJ→ CHUNK) TARGET (@SUBJ→);
SUBSTITUTE (@←SUBJ)  (@←SUBJ CHUNK) TARGET (@←SUBJ);
SUBSTITUTE (@OBJ→)    (@OBJ→ CHUNK)  TARGET (@OBJ→);
SUBSTITUTE (@←OBJ)   (@←OBJ CHUNK)  TARGET (@←OBJ);
...

to define what you want to be a chunk.

Note that since Matxin expects that no non-CHUNK nodes may have CHUNK children, any word which might get a CHUNK daughter in the CG has to also get the CHUNK label.

See also

• how to use the Faroese FST from giellatekno
• pronoun list

Problems

• How do we insert a node? Ie. what's the Matxin equivalent of <out><lu>...</lu></out>? This will be necessary for eg. adding determiners in front of nouns (í dag fáa vit svar => today we get a reply)

• For some reason, the deformatter always adds "space dot" to the end of everything, $ echo "Hví ikki?" | matxin-destxt /tmp/foo gives Hví ikki? .

Tests

• Faroese and English/Regression tests
• Faroese and English/Pending tests