Apertium
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Apertium is a machine translation system being developed with funding from the Spanish government and the Catalan government at the Universitat d'Alacant (University of Alicante). It is free software and released under the terms of the GNU GPL.
It is one of the two projects inside OpenTrad and is designed to translate between closely related languages. Language data developed for it (in collaboration with the Universidade de Vigo, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra) currently support the Romance languages of Spain, Spanish (Castilian), Catalan and Galician, and also Portuguese, French and Occitan. English is planned for early 2007.
Apertium is a shallow-transfer machine translation system, which uses finite state transducers for all of its lexical transformations, and hidden Markov models for part-of-speech tagging or word category disambiguation.
[edit] See also
- Machine translation
- Matxin
[edit] References
- Corbí-Bellot, M. et. al. (2005) "An open-source shallow-transfer machine translation engine for the romance languages of Spain" in Proceedings of the European Association for Machine Translation, 10th Annual Conference, Budapest 2005, pp. 79-86
- Armentano-Oller, C. et al. (2006) "Open-source Portuguese-Spanish machine translation" in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3960 [Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Processing of Written and Spoken Portuguese, PROPOR 2006], p 50-59.
