foss.in 2008 :: Day 4

Day 4 @ foss.in 2008

IndLinux Project BOF Beacon Workout Sharing ideas after Apertium talk Sachin Joshi demo's his Hindi ASR system Flashing the Neo FreeRunner Connecting the FreeRunner with an USB cable and reseting it to boot from NOR dfu-util in action dfu-util writes the kernel and File system images to the device Just Messing Around ! Few more OLPC XO's sighted Lou Bébert brought it his ubuntu studio turntables hookup XwaX UI External USB sound card ( look at scheme diagram) Ubuntu Studio PC Aasim tries his hand at DJing Ramki nails another victim Don't wanna sing!

Apertium: Open source machine translation

If you are interested in Machine Translation(MT) then you should read this great introductory article on Apertium MT system. Well I didn't know that Apertium is the open-source Systran (the engine that powers Babelfish) Did you? .

At the time of writing this post, there are no stable language pair for Indian languages in Apertium, If you are interested in working on one, do send me a shout out.

Kudos to Jimmy O'Regan for writing this one.

Lttoolbox Install Notes

Lttoolbox is a lexical and morphological analyser package from the Apertium machine translation system. Here is a brief install notes taken from my NLP summer school lab notes.

Build Lttoolbox

Download the lttoolbox source package from sourceforge.

tar zxvf lttoolbox-xxxxx.tgz cd lttoolbox-xxxxx/ make make install

You will need root level permission to install other dependency packages for lttoolbox . GNU Debian users however should use the lttoolbox debian package available in stable/testing/unstable and also read the Installing Apertium on Debian documentation page for more information.

Usage

If the tool is installed properly then you can look up the program install path with which lt-comp command.

Here I am compiling the Hindi dictionary with a left-to-right option lr, the output is stored in binary format in file 'mydata'. This binary file is used by the lt-proc processor to do the morph analysis.

lt-comp lr hi.dix.noun_f mydata lt-proc ./mydata

For more information do read the manual pages for the lt-comp and lt-proc tools or fire me a email, I would love to you help you.