apertium(1)
NAME
apertium - This application is part of ( apertium )
This tool is part of the apertium machine translation architecture:
http://apertium.sf.net.
SYNOPSIS
apertium [-d datadir] [-f format] [-u] [-a] {language-pair} [infile
[outfile]]
DESCRIPTION
apertium is the application that most people will be using as it simplifies the use of apertium/lt-toolbox tools for machine translation
purposes.
This tool tries to ease the use of lt-toolbox (which contains all the
lexical processing modules and tools) and apertium (which contains the
rest of the engine) by providing a unique front-end to the end-user.
- The different modules behind the apertium machine translation architecture are in order:
- o de-formatter: Separates the text to be translated from the format information.
- o morphological-analyser: Tokenizes the text in surface forms.
- o part-of-speech tagger: Chooses one surface forms among homographs.
- o lexical transfer module: Reads each source-language lexical form and delivers a corresponding target-language lexical form.
- o structural transfer module: Detects fixed-length patterns of lexical forms (chunks or phrases) needing special processing due to grammatical divergences between the two languages and performs the corresponding transformations.
- o morphological generator: Delivers a target-language surface form for each target-language lexical form, by suitably inflecting it.
- o post-generator: Performs orthographical operations such as contractions and apostrophations.
- o re-formatter: Restores the format information encapsulated by the de-formatter into the translated text and removes the encapsulation sequences used to protect certain characters in the source text.
OPTIONS
-d datadir The directory holding the linguistic data. By default it
will used the expected installation path.
language-pair The language pair: LANG1-LANG2 (for instance es-ca or caes).
- -f format Specifies the format of the input and output files which can
have these values:
- o txt (default value) Input and output files are in text format.
- o html Input and output files are in "html" format. This "html" is the one acceptd by the vast majority of web browsers.
- o rtf Input and output files are in "rtf" format. The accepted "rtf" is the one generated by Microsoft WordPad (C) and Microsoft Office (C) up to and including Office-97.
- -u Disable marking of unknown words with the '*' character.
- -a Enable marking of disambiguated words with the '=' character.
FILES
These are the two files that can be used with this command:
infile Input file (stdin by default).
outfile Output file (stdout by default).
SEE ALSO
lt-proc(1), lt-comp(1), lt-expand(1), apertium-tagger(1).
BUGS
Lots of...lurking in the dark and waiting for you!
AUTHOR
- (c) 2005,2006 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante. All
rights reserved.