Matxin 1.0 New Language Pair HOWTO

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This page intends to give a step-by-step walk-through of how to create a new translator in the Matxin platform.

Prerequisites

Main article: Matxin

This page does not give instructions on installing Matxin, but presumes that the following packages are correctly installed.

Overview

As mentioned in the lead, this page intends to give a step-by-step guide to creating a new language pair with Matxin from scratch. No programming knowledge is required, all that needs to be defined are some dictionaries and grammars. The Matxin platform is described in detail in Documentation of Matxin and on the Matxin homepage. This page will only focus on the creation of a new language pair.

Analysis

Morphological

Category disambiguation

Chunking

Dependency parsing