Japanese and English: apertium-jpn-eng

This is an Apertium language pair for translating between Japanese and English. What you can use this language package for:

• Translating between Japanese and English
• Morphological analysis of Japanese and English
• Part-of-speech tagging of Japanese and English

For information on the latter two points, see subheading "For more information" below.

Requirements

You will need the following software installed:

• autoconf
• automake
• pkg-config
• lttoolbox (>= 3.5.1)
• apertium (>= 3.6.1)
• vislcg3 (>= 1.3.1)
• hfst (>= 3.15.1)
• apertium-jpn
• apertium-eng

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

Compiling

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

$ autoreconf -fvi
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

You can use ./autogen.sh instead of autoreconf and ./configure in case you're compiling from source. If you installed any prerequisite language packages using a --prefix with ./configure, make sure to use the same --prefix when running ./configure here.

If any of this doesn't make sense or doesn't work, see https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Install_language_data_by_compiling

Testing

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

$ echo "TODO test sentence 1" | apertium -d . jpn-eng
TODO test translated sentence 1

$ echo "TODO test sentence 2" | apertium -d . eng-jpn
TODO test translated sentence 2

After installing somewhere in $PATH, you should be able to do e.g.

$ echo "TODO test sentence 1" | apertium jpn-eng
TODO test translated sentence 1

Files and data

• apertium-jpn-eng.jpn-eng.dix - Bilingual dictionary
• apertium-jpn-eng.jpn-eng.rtx - Structural transfer rules for translating into English
• apertium-jpn-eng.eng-jpn.rtx - Structural transfer rules for translating into Japanese
• apertium-jpn-eng.jpn-eng.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into English
• apertium-jpn-eng.eng-jpn.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into Japanese
• apertium-jpn-eng.jpn-eng.lsx - Discontiguous multiword rules for translating into English
• apertium-jpn-eng.eng-jpn.lsx - Discontiguous multiword rules for translating into Japanese
• modes.xml - Translation modes

For more information

• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-jpn-eng
• https://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.oftc.net (irc://irc.oftc.net/#apertium)

See also the file AUTHORS, included in this distribution.