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* [[Sámi languages]]
 
* [[Sámi languages]]
 
* [[Irish Gaelic]]
 
* [[Irish Gaelic]]
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==When is CG needed?==
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Currently some of the CG rules written in the above language pairs may be written as forbid rules in the [[TSX format]] used by apertium-tagger. If the rules for your language pair can be written in the .tsx format, you can go for an easier design without a CG module in that language pair.
   
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 14:46, 16 June 2012

Constraint Grammar is a tool that can be used to POS-tag ambiguous text. There are free constraint grammars developed outside the Apertium project for: Norwegian (the Oslo-Bergen tagger), Sámi languages (from Giellatekno) and Faroese (also from Giellatekno).

Terminology

See also: Apertium stream format
Apertium equivalent: ^words/word<n><pl>/word<vblex><pres><p3><sg>$
  • baseform — the lemma of a word.
  • reading — a single analysis of a word.
Apertium equivalent: ^word<n><pl>$

Note on parenthesis

The use of parentheses to distinguish between tags and lists/sets seems to be the main confusing point for people learning CG. If we have the morphological tags tag1 and tag2, then we can have rules like this:

LIST set1 = tag1 ;
LIST set2 = (tag1 tag2) ; # matches a word with both tag1 and tag2
LIST set3 = tag1 tag2 ;   # matches a word with tag1 or tag2
LIST word = "hello" ;

SELECT:1a (tag1) (1 word) ;
SELECT:1b  set1  (1 word) ;   # equivalent to 1a

SELECT:2a (tag1 tag2) (1 word) ;
SELECT:2b  set2       (1 word) ;   # equivalent to 2a

SELECT:3a tag1 (1 word) ;
SELECT:3b tag2 (1 word) ;
SELECT:3c set3 (1 word) ;   # equivalent to 3a and 3b combined

SELECT:1c  set1  (1 ("hello")) ; # equivalent to 1a (or 1b)

Languages using CG in Apertium

When is CG needed?

Currently some of the CG rules written in the above language pairs may be written as forbid rules in the TSX format used by apertium-tagger. If the rules for your language pair can be written in the .tsx format, you can go for an easier design without a CG module in that language pair.

See also

External links