Documentation

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Official

• Apertium 2.0: Official documentation (222 pages)

Overwhelmingly also applies to Apertium 3.0, except statements about non-Unicode support. Also, the older SLR/SRL method for lexical selection/disambiguation is covered, but this is now replaced by the Lexical selection module.

• Publications — Conference and journal articles published about Apertium.

Undocumented Features

• Cascaded Interchunk

General

• Workflow diagram
• Workflow reference — includes examples, file names, and links.
• List of symbols
  • Liste de symboles
• Apertium stream format

Apertium in 5 slides

Short presentations prepared by GCI students.

• Apertium: A Free/Open-Source Machine Translation System, by Allyson Boone
• Apertium A free/open-source machine translation platform, by Darkgaia

Entry Test for Apertium

Test how well you know Apertium in this quiz! Are you knowledgeable enough about Apertium to be a stellar developer/GCI/GSoC student?

• Entry Test for Apertium, by Darkgaia

GsoC / GCI students

• GsoC students: read Top tips for GSOC applications and Ideas_for_Google_Summer_of_Code
• GCI students: read Top_tips_for_GSOC_applications#Other_tips

Creating a new pair

• Apertium New Language Pair HOWTO — step-by-step description of how to start a new language pair in Apertium.
  • Créer une nouvelle paire de langues
  • Uputstvo za novi jezički par za Apertium
  • Апертиум, как се създава нова езикова двойка
  • Kiel aldoni novan lingvan duon‎
  • Упатство за креирање на нови јазични парови
  • Amestar un par de llingües nuevu
  • Sevel ur c'houblad yezhoù nevez
  • अपर्टियम मे नई भाषा जोडे
  • अपर्टियम मा नायाँ भाषा जोड्नुहोस
  • Руководство по созданию новой языковой пары
  • Come scrivere una nuova coppia di lingue Apertium

• Building dictionaries — some tips and tricks for building dictionaries.
• Getting started with induction tools — how to install Apertium, GIZA++, etc, and create a bilingual dictionary.
• Tagger training — how to train your part-of-speech tagger.
• Cookbook — code-snippets for various "hard to work out" phenomena in some languages and families.
• Using linguistic resources — a primer for newcomers.
• Preparing to use apertium-transfer-tools

Contributing to an existing pair

• Contributing to an existing pair — some pointers for contributing to an existing pair.
  • Comment contribuer à une paire de langues existante
• Become a language pair developer for Apertium — A quick, step-by-step guide for Ubuntu and Debian users on how to add entries to a language pair.

How it works

• Apertium for Dummies
• Using Git — an introduction to using Git for Apertium.
  • Git Documentation
  • Simple Guide to Using Git
• Code structure — a guide to the file structure of source downloads (and the SVN repository)
• Modes introduction
• Multiwords
• Frequently Asked Questions — what it says in the link.
  • Questions fréquentes

Introductions to Modules

• Monodix basics — a basic step-by-step explanation to morphological dictionaries
  • Diccionariu morfolóxicu‎
  • Dictionnaire unilingue
• Tips for working on bilingual dictionaries — hints about issues you may meet
• Bilingual dictionary — some guidelines for writing bilingual dictionaries
  • Dictionnaire bilingue
• How to get started with lexical selection rules
• Chunking: A full example
• Post-generator
• Constraint Grammar

Not used often now,

• Part-of-speech tagging — information on HMMs for part-of-speech tagging
  • Balisage d'une partie de discours

See also the Workflow reference

Indexes

• Documentation in Turkish
• Documentation in English
• Documentación en Castellano
• Dokumentado en Esperanto
• Documentation en Français
• Documentazione in Italiano
• Documentaţie în Română
• Машинный перевод для языков России
• Документация на русском языке