[ddp] apertium : Shallow-transfer machine translation engine

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Hello,

Today, I'm happy to present you the Debian package apertium, which is
part of the libs section, and maintained by Francis Tyers
<f.tyers at uea.ac.uk>. 

This package contains : Shallow-transfer machine translation engine.

An open-source shallow-transfer machine translation
engine, Apertium is initially aimed at related-language pairs.

It uses finite-state transducers for lexical processing,
hidden Markov models for part-of-speech tagging, and
finite-state based chunking for structural transfer.

The system is largely based upon systems already developed by
the Transducens  group at the Universitat d'Alacant, such as
interNOSTRUM (Spanish-Catalan, http://www.internostrum.com/welcome.php)
and Traductor Universia (Spanish-Portuguese,
http://traductor.universia.net).

It will be possible to use Apertium to build machine translation
systems for a variety of related-language pairs simply providing
the linguistic data needed in the right format.

There is a free package (apertium-pt-es) that provides the data
needed to translate between Spanish and Portuguese.

Homepage: http://apertium.sourceforge.net


Package homepage     :
 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/apertium

Package bug homepage :
 http://bugs.debian.org/apertium

Package QA homepage  :
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/apertium

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