Finnish and German: apertium-fin-deu

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

• Translating between Finnish and German
• Morphological analysis of Finnish and German
• Part-of-speech tagging of Finnish and German

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

The word-form translations are manually inputted with some data scraped from wiktionary and verified by hand.

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-fin
• apertium-deu

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 "talo" | apertium -d . fin-deu
Haus

$ echo "Haus" | apertium -d . deu-fin
talo

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

$ echo "talo" | apertium fin-deu
Haus

Files and data

• apertium-fin-deu.fin-deu.dix - Bilingual dictionary
• apertium-fin-deu.fin-deu.rtx - Structural transfer rules for translating into German
• apertium-fin-deu.deu-fin.rtx - Structural transfer rules for translating into Finnish
• apertium-fin-deu.fin-deu.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into German
• apertium-fin-deu.deu-fin.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into Finnish
• modes.xml - Translation modes

For more information

• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-fin-deu
• 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.

Cite as

Flammie A Pirinen (2018): Rule-based machine-translation between Finnish and German in DGfS 2018: 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, CL-Postersession.

@misc{
    author = {Flammie A Pirinen},
    year = {2018},
    title = {Rule-based machine-translation between Finnish and German},
    booktitle = {DGfS 2018: 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für
        Sprachwissenschaft},
    url =
    {https://www.dgfs2018.uni-stuttgart.de/DGfS_2018_booklet_ONLINE_FINAL.pdf},
    pages = {337}
}

A TeX source and author's draft version can be found in Flammie's academic publications repository.