Afrikaans and Dutch (apertium-afr-nld)

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

• Translating between Afrikaans and Dutch
• Morphological analysis of Afrikaans and Dutch
• Part-of-speech tagging of Afrikaans and Dutch

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

Requirements

You will need the following software installed:

• lttoolbox (>= 3.2.0)
• apertium (>= 3.2.0)

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:

$ ./configure 
$ make

You can use ./autogen.sh instead of ./configure you're compiling from git. If you're using a --prefix to ./configure, make sure it's the same one you used to install apertium itself.

Testing

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

$ echo "Hy kan nie kom nie want hy is siek." | apertium -d . afr-nld
Hij kan niet komen want hij is ziek.

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

$ echo "Hy kan nie kom nie want hy is siek." | apertium  afr-nld
Hij kan niet komen want hij is ziek.

The following command runs tests which are on the Apertium wiki page:

$ ./regression-tests.sh 

Files and data

• apertium-af-nl.af.dix - Monolingual dictionary for Afrikaans
• apertium-af-nl.af-nl.dix - Bilingual dictionary
• apertium-af-nl.nl.dix - Monolingual dictionary for Dutch
• apertium-af-nl.af-nl.t1x - Chunker rules for translating into Dutch
• apertium-af-nl.af-nl.t2x - Interchunk rules for translating into Dutch
• apertium-af-nl.af-nl.t3x - Postchunk rules for translating into Dutch
• apertium-nl-af.nl-af.t1x - Chunker rules for translating into Afrikaans
• apertium-nl-af.nl-af.t2x - Interchunk rules for translating into Afrikaans
• apertium-nl-af.nl-af.t3x - Postchunk rules for translating into Afrikaans
• af-nl.prob - Tagger model for Afrikaans
• nl-af.prob - Tagger model for Dutch
• modes.xml - Translation modes

For more information

• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-af-nl
• 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: [email protected]
• IRC: #apertium on irc.oftc.net

See also the file AUTHORS included in this distribution.