[A12n-forum] Fwd: open-source machine translation toolbox

["Donald Z. Osborn" <dzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This item may be of interest, although for the moment it is apparently useful
only for Romance languages and does not yet support Unicode.

Don Osborn
Bisharat.net



Dear Bisharat representative,
this letter is just to let you know that very recently my group has released an
open-source machine translation toolbox called Apertium through
http://apertium.sourceforge.net. Documentation is still scarce, but the main
use of this toolbox would be to produce machine translation systems for
languages that are not syntactically very different (we offer data for
Spanish-Catalan). You might be interested in posting a link to Apertium in your
http://www.bisharat.net/Trans/ , just in case some of the people working in
language technologies for African languages find it interesting. The kit still
uses only the Latin-1 or Latin 9 encodings, but we are planning to extend it so
that it can work with Unicode.

Sincerely,

Mikel Forcada

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