Crossdics Example

Obtaining apertium-crossdics

Download

$ svn co https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-crossdics

You will need to install Ant and Java Development Kit 6 (JDK6)

$ sudo apt-get install ant sun-java6-jdk

Compiling

$ cd apertium-crossdics
$ ant jar

Install and execution

$ sudo ant install

To use apertium-crossdics:

$ apertium-crossdics -f en-es-gl-ling-resources.xml en-gl

What you need

Linguistic Resource Document

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!-- Linguistic resources-->
<ling-resources>
   <name>My linguistic resources</name>
   <description>My linguistics resources: morphological and bilingual dictionaries, cross models, corpora, etc.</description>
   
   <resource-set>

      <name>My linguistic resources to get English-Galician language pair.</name>
      <description>Morphological and bilingual dictionaries.</description>

      <!-- cross model en-es-gl -->
      <resource>
         <property name="name" value="cross-model-en-es-gl"/>
         <property name="type" value="cross-model"/>
         <property name="sl" value="en"/>
         <property name="tl" value="gl"/>      
         <property name="for-crossing" value="yes"/>
         <property name="src" value="cross-model-en-es-gl.xml"/>
         <property name="version" value="stable"/>
      </resource>
      
      <!-- cross model gl-es-en -->
      <resource>
         <property name="name" value="cross-model-gl-es-en"/>
         <property name="type" value="cross-model"/>
         <property name="sl" value="gl"/>
         <property name="tl" value="en"/>      
         <property name="for-crossing" value="yes"/>
         <!-- note that we use the same cross model file -->
         <property name="src" value="cross-model-en-es-gl.xml"/>
         <property name="version" value="stable"/>
      </resource>
      
      <!-- 'en' morphological dictionary -->
      <resource>
         <property name="name" value="apertium-en"/>
         <property name="type" value="mon"/>
         <property name="sl" value="en"/>
         <property name="for-crossing" value="yes"/>
         <property name="src" value="apertium-en-ca.en.metadix"/>
         <property name="version" value="stable"/>
      </resource>

      <!-- 'gl' morphological dictionary -->
      <resource>
         <property name="name" value="apertium-gl"/>
         <property name="type" value="mon"/>
         <property name="sl" value="gl"/>
         <property name="for-crossing" value="yes"/>
         <property name="src" value="apertium-es-gl.gl.dix"/>
         <property name="version" value="stable"/>
      </resource>

      <!-- 'en-es' bilingual dictionary -->
      <resource>
         <property name="name" value="apertium-es-ca"/>
         <property name="type" value="bil"/>
         <property name="sl" value="en"/>
         <property name="tl" value="es"/>
         <property name="for-crossing" value="yes"/>
         <property name="src" value="apertium-en-es.en-es.dix"/>
         <property name="version" value="stable"/>
      </resource>
      
      <!-- 'es-gl' bilingual dictionary -->   
      <resource>
         <property name="name" value="apertium-es-gl"/>
         <property name="type" value="bil"/>
         <property name="sl" value="es"/>
         <property name="tl" value="gl"/>
         <property name="for-crossing" value="yes"/>
         <property name="src" value="apertium-es-gl.es-gl.dix"/>
         <property name="version" value="stable"/>
      </resource>
      
   </resource-set>
   
</ling-resources>