apertium

[Francis Tyers <spectre@ivixor.net>]

I'm looking for a sponsor to upload apertium and related shared library
and development package.

ITP here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/08/msg00084.html

(I have been in contact with Sergio who filed the ITP. He is ok with me
packaging it as he is busy).

Package here:

http://82.133.33.43/~spectre/apertium/apertium/

Package details:

  Package name    : apertium
  Version         : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : University of Alicante
  URL             : http://apertium.sourceforge.net
  License         : GPL
  Description     : A shallow-transfer machine translation engine.

 Apertium is an open-source shallow-transfer machine translation engine,
 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.

Thanks,

Francis Tyers