On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 08:16:57PM +0200, Per Tunedal wrote: > Hi, > Naturally I agree with Keld. I suppose there would be somewhat more > contributions if the threshold was lower to start working on a new > language. > > I've got one more basic question about the bilingual dictionary: what > happens if there isn't a neat mapping one to one between the languages? > The extension of a concept might be different in the two languages. You > might need to choose between two words in the target language. > > Take for instance the word "key". In Swedish you have two possibilities: > "nyckel" (for locks and ciphers) and "tangent" (for pianos and > keyboards). > > How can you handle that with Apertium?
I have thought about adding "meaning" to the apertium rules, based on the Swedish SALDO work and wordnet. You can then register in the dicts the same word - homonyms - with the same inflections but with different meaning. And then I wanted to make an algorihm for the most likely meaning, giving the meaning of the words in the context. Maybe the shortest distance in the tree of meanings to say the 10 nearest words with meaning. I have been told that this has been tried before, without notacable results, but anyway, I would like to have tried it out. My knowledge of apertium code is almost nil, so I have not begun programming such a thing. best regards keld > Yours, > Per Tunedal > > > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012, at 19:19, k...@keldix.com wrote: > > Bonjour Bernard et Per et tous, > > > > I think it would be handy if there were some general guidelines to build > > new language pairs on existing pairs in Apertium. Could that be done? > > (maybe it is already done?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
