Matxin

Matxin is a free software machine translation engine related to Apertium. It allows for deeper transfer than can be found in Apertium. The linguistic data available under a free-licence is a fraction of the data that is used in the papers and descriptions of the subject, so naturally the translations from the pair will be less good than you can find results in the paper.

Prerequisites

• libcfg+ — http://platon.sk/upload/_projects/00003/libcfg+-0.6.2.tar.gz
• BerkleyDB — sudo apt-get install libdb4.6++-dev
• libomlet — https://lafarga.cpl.upc.edu/frs/download.php/130/libomlet-0.97.tar.gz
• libfries — https://lafarga.cpl.upc.edu/frs/download.php/129/libfries-0.95.tar.gz
• FreeLing (version 1.5) — https://lafarga.cpl.upc.edu/frs/download.php/90/FreeLing-1.5.tar.gz

If you're installing into a prefix, you'll need to set two environment variables: CPPFLAGS=-I<prefix>/include LDFLAGS=-L<prefix>/lib ./configure --prefix=<prefix>

• lttoolbox (version 2.0)

Building

Checkout

$ svn co http://matxin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matxin

First comment out the deformatters in the Makefile.am as they don't build properly.

Then do:

$ aclocal; automake -a; autoconf
$ LTTOOLBOX_DIR=/home/fran/svnroot/local/unstable/ LDFLAGS="-L/home/fran/local/lib -L/usr/lib" 
CPPFLAGS="-I/home/fran/local/include" ./configure --prefix=/home/fran/local/

You will probably need to fix a few things in the file: src/Makefile to get it to build, for example add:

DEFAULT_INCLUDES = -I. -I$(srcdir) -I/usr/include/libxml2
CPPFLAGS = -I<prefix>/include/lttoolbox-2.0 -I<prefix>/include

Executing

$ export MATXIN_DIR=<prefix>
$ echo "Esto es una prueba" |  \
./Analyzer -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./LT -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./ST_inter --inter 1 -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./ST_prep -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./ST_inter --inter 2 -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./ST_verb   -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg  | \
./ST_inter --inter 3 -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./SG_inter -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./SG_intra -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./MG -f $MATXIN_DIR/share/matxin/config.cfg | \
./reFormat

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Speed

Between 25--30 words per second.

Documentation

• Descripción del sistema de traducción es-eu Matxin (in Spanish)