Hi Christian, One of the following pages is probably what you're looking for: https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Apertium_New_Language_Pair_HOWTO https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/How_to_bootstrap_a_new_pair
Daniel On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 3:35 PM Christian Chiarcos via Apertium-stuff < apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Dear list members, > > apologies for my ignorance, but where can I find an overview about the > minimal requirements to set up a new language pair for Apertium MT? I'm > considering to contribute to the development of translation system from > Sumerian to English to complement our NMT (and EBMT) baselines ( > https://github.com/cdli-gh), possibly in the context of the Apertium > ecosystem. > > Also, as we do have lexical resources and core components for morphology > and syntactic parsing for Sumerian in place, I was also wondering about > suggesting work on such a prototype as a topic for a GSoC project for 2021 > -- and if there is any interest from the Apertium community in this, > possibly as a collaborative effort (meaning joint mentorship) between the > Cuneiform DIgital Library Initiative and the Apertium community. > > Clearly, a disadvantage of any MT system involving Sumerian is that the > translation bridges languages that are not closely related by any means, > but nevertheless, the relative data sparsity (this is an ancient language > after all, even though well-documented) calls to explore directions of > symbolic translation as yet another option, at least. > > Best regards, > Christian > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >
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