1 apertium-transfer-tools
3 This software is GPL. It is provided as is, WITHOUT any guarantee, in
4 the hope that it will be useful.
6 (c) 2006-2007 Felipe Sánchez Martínez
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9 This package provides a set of tools for the automatic generation of
10 shallow-transfer machine translation (MT) rules from parallel
11 corpora. Transfer rules are generated from alignment templates, like
12 those used in statistical machine translation, that have been
13 extracted from parallel corpora and extended with a set of
14 restrictions controlling their application. The generate transfer
15 rules (in XML format) can be directly used by the Apertium MT platform
16 (http://www.apertium.org). Although this package is aimed at the
17 generation of Apertium transfer rules it can be adapted to generate
18 shallow-transfer rules for other MT platforms. Moreover, some of the
19 tools it provides can be used for other purposes such as the
20 extraction of bilingual phrase pairs or the symmetrization of
21 previously computed alignments. This package depends on the GIZA++
22 toolkit (http://www.fjoch.com/GIZA++.html) to compute word
23 alignments; nevertheless, it can be easily adapted to use other
26 Comments on this software are VERY welcome, do not hesitate to write
27 me for comments, feedback or just to tell me that you found this
30 If you use this software for research, or for any other particular
31 purpose, I would be very grateful if you could cite one or both of the
32 following research papers describing this software:
34 * Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada. "Automatic induction of
35 shallow-transfer rules for open-source machine translation". In
36 Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological
37 Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007) , p. 181-190,
38 September 7-9, 2007, Skövde, Sweden.
40 @InProceedings{sanchezmartinez07c,
41 author = {S{\'{a}}nchez-Mart{\'{\i}}nez, Felipe
42 and Forcada, Mikel L.},
43 title = {Automatic induction of shallow-transfer rules
44 for open-source machine translation},
45 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical
46 and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007)},
49 editor = {Andy Way and Barbara Gawronska},
54 publisher = {Skövde University Studies in Informatics},
55 location = {Skövde, Sweden},
57 isbn = {978-91-977095-0-7},
60 * Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Hermann Ney. "Using alignment templates to
61 infer shallow-transfer machine translation rules". In Lecture Notes in
62 Computer Science 4139 (Advances in Natural Language Processing,
63 Proceedings of FinTAL 2006, 5th International Conference on Natural
64 Language Processing), p. 756-767, August 23-25, 2006, Turku,
67 @incollection{sanchezmartinez06,
68 author = {S{\'{a}}nchez-Mart{\'{\i}}nez, Felipe
70 title = {Using Alignment Templates to Infer Shallow-Transfer
71 Machine Translation Rules},
72 booktitle = {Advances in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of
73 5th International Conference on Natural Language
75 publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
79 series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
83 location = {Turku, Finland},
84 copyright = {Springer-Verlag},
85 isbn = {3-540-37334-9},
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94 Felipe Sánchez Martínez
96 Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
98 E-03071 Alacant (Spain)
101 http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~fsanchez
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105 To install apertium-transfer-tools you need to have installed the
108 libxml2, at least version 2.6.17
109 lttoolbox, at least version 2.0.0
110 apertium, at least version 2.0.0
112 Once you have all the required software installed, install
113 apertium-transfer-tools in the common way:
115 $ ./configure && make
121 For more information on each program execute it without parameters.
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127 Software funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology
128 through project TIC2003-08681-C02-01, and by the Spanish Ministry of
129 Education and Science and the European Social Found through research
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134 Please visit http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~fsanchez/publications.html
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138 Have a look at the 'example' directory