User:David Nemeskey/GSOC progress 2013

Tasks

XML format

See User:David_Nemeskey/CG_XML_brainstorming.

Compiler

Code

• Read the fomacg code and understand what it does.
• Add comments do a little refactoring (e.g. separate function for creating @*word@* FSTs).
• Check and test if it works on all grammars, fix it if it isn't.

Research

• Decrease the number of rules applied (see in the proposal).
• When and how can rules be merged?

Miscellaneous / Extra

Hungarian CG grammar

Write a simple CG grammar for Hungarian, somewhere around 50-150 rules.

• Read Pasi Tapnainen's The Constraint Grammar Parser CG-2.
• Read the contents of cg_material.zip.
• Install Apertium, VISL CG3 and a language pair (cy-en)
• Study the CG grammar of an Apertium language.
• Write a Hungarian grammar that covers the sentences in this sample file
  • The tags will be based on those in KR-code. See the next task.
• TODOs:
  • add a sentence to the rasskaz file for the "az a" construct.
  • prevb disambiguation
• The file is here.

Hunmorph converter

Write a converter from ocamorph's output to Apertium's format.

• Again, use the sentences in this sample file as reference.
• While a C-based converter would definitely be possible, I opted for a foma-based (xfst -- lexc?) implementation, so that this task also serves for practice.
• TODOs:
  • some analyses are repeated in the output: fix them! -- Not a real fix, because the problem wasn't in the script, but in ocamorph, but I wrote a python script that discards repeated analyses.
  • hunmorph_to_apertium.foma does not handle compounds (+)
  • two-phase conversion (handle special words first, then the general part)
  • a few non-general conversions:
    • "mikor<CONJ>" => <cnjadv>, "mikor<ADV>" => <itg>
    • "hova" => <itg>
    • "így<CONJ>" => <cnjadv>
    • "ekkor<ADV>" => <cnjadv>?
    • "aztán<CONJ>" => <cnjadv>
• Apparently a pure lexc/foma based implementation wasn't possible (at least with the one line -- one word output format I decided ask from hunmorph). The reason is that the tagset of hunmorph and Apertium does not match exactly, and therefore I needed to add exceptional rules for certain words and lexical categories. However, flookup returns all possible analyses, so in this case it returned both the exceptional and the regular translation. The current solution consists of four files:
  • kr_to_apertium_spec.lexc contains the words / lexical categories that need special treatment (vbser, prns, "ez"/"az", etc.)
  • kr_to_apertium.lexc contains the rest of the categories, i.e. whose the translation was straightforward
  • kr_to_apertium.foma is a simple foma script that writes the previous two into the binary file kr_to_apertium.fst
  • hunmorph_to_apertium.cpp loads the two FSTs from the binary file and applies them to the readings. First it tries to parse the reading with the _spec FST; if it fails, it reverts back to the general one. This mechanism ensures that all readings get only one translation, and it is also the correct one.

ATT -> lttoolbox compiler

Write an ATT FST format reading for lttoolbox. A useful practice for moving from foma to lttoolbox. Since lttoolbox lacks some of the functionaty needed, the compiler will most likely stay in foma, but lttoolbox might work as the runtime component.

• ATT format
• "<spectie> the ATT->lttoolbox thing should be a simple as : beer = t.insertSingleTransduction(alphabet(L'e',L'e'), beer);"
  • The actual implementation turned out to be a little more difficult. Anyway, the code is here.
  • The transducer we used for testing, kaz.att, didn't work with lt-proc, so Fran told me to create two transducers instead of one: one for words (main) and one for punctuation (final). It doesn't work on kaz.att yet, but at least on a trivial subset, it does.