Kazakh: apertium-kaz

This is an Apertium monolingual language package for Kazakh. What you can use this language package for:

• Morphological analysis of Kazakh
• Morphological generation of Kazakh
• Part-of-speech tagging of Kazakh

Requirements

You will need the following software installed:

• lttoolbox (>= 3.3.0)
• apertium (>= 3.3.0)
• vislcg3 (>= 0.9.9.10297)

If this does not make any sense, we recommend you look at: www.apertium.org

Compiling

Given the requirements being installed, you should be able to just run:

$ ./configure
$ make

You can use ./autogen.sh instead of ./configure if you're compiling from SVN.

If you're doing development, you don't have to install the data, you can use it directly from this directory.

If you are installing this language package as a prerequisite for an Apertium translation pair, then do (typically as root / with sudo):

# make install

You can give a --prefix to ./configure to install as a non-root user, but make sure to use the same prefix when installing the translation pair and any other language packages.

Testing

If you are in the source directory after running make, the following commands should work:

$ echo "Сәлем!" | apertium -d . kaz-morph
^Сәлем/сәлем<ij>/сәлем<n><nom>/сәлем<n><attr>/
сәлем<n><nom>+е<cop><aor><p3><pl>/сәлем<n><nom>+е<cop><aor><p3><sg>$
^!/!<sent>$^./.<sent>$

$ echo "Оқу инемен құдық қазғандай." | apertium -d . kaz-tagger
^Оқу/оқу<adj>$ ^инемен/ине<n><ins>$ ^құдық/құдық<n><nom>$
^қазғандай/қаз<v><tv><ger_past><sim>$^./.<sent>$^./.<sent>$ 

Files and data

• apertium-kaz.kaz.lexc - Monolingual dictionary
• apertium-kaz.kaz.twol - Morphophonological rules
• apertium-kaz.kaz.err.twol -
• apertium-kaz.kaz.guesser.twol -
• kaz.prob - Tagger model
• apertium-kaz.kaz.rlx - Constraint Grammar disambiguation rules
• apertium-kaz.post-kaz.dix - Post-generator
• apertium-kaz.kaz.mtx -
• apertium-kaz.kaz.tsx -
• apertium-kaz.kaz.udx -
• modes.xml - Translation modes

For more information

• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-kaz
• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Using_an_lttoolbox_dictionary

Help and support

If you need help using this language pair or data, you can contact:

• Mailing list: apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net
• IRC: #apertium on irc.freenode.net

See also the file AUTHORS included in this distribution.

Acknowledgements

If you use this in your work, please cite:

• Washington, J. N., Salimzyanov, I., and Tyers, F. M. (2014) "Finite-state morphological transducers for three Kypchak languages". Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2014. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/summaries/1207.html