English and Igbo: apertium-eng-ibo

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

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

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

Requirements

You will need the following software installed:

• lttoolbox (>= 3.3.0)
• apertium (>= 3.3.0)
• vislcg3 (>= 0.9.9.10297)
• hfst (>= 3.8.2)
• apertium-eng
• apertium-ibo

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 --with-lang1=../apertium-eng --with-lang2=../apertium-ibo
$ make
# make install

You can use ./autogen.sh --with-lang1=../apertium-eng --with-lang2=../apertium-ibo instead of ./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.

Testing

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

$ echo "house" | apertium -d . eng-ibo
#ụlọ#

$ echo "ụlọ" | apertium -d . ibo-eng
#house

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

$ echo "house" | apertium eng-ibo
#ụlọ#

Files and data

• apertium-eng-ibo.eng-ibo.dix - Bilingual dictionary
• apertium-eng-ibo.eng-ibo.t1x - Chunking rules for translating into Igbo
• apertium-eng-ibo.ibo-eng.t1x - Chunking rules for translating into English
• apertium-eng-ibo.eng-ibo.t2x - Interchunk rules for translating into Igbo
• apertium-eng-ibo.ibo-eng.t2x - Interchunk rules for translating into English
• apertium-eng-ibo.eng-ibo.t3x - Postchunk rules for translating into Igbo
• apertium-eng-ibo.ibo-eng.t3x - Postchunk rules for translating into English
• apertium-eng-ibo.eng-ibo.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into Igbo
• apertium-eng-ibo.ibo-eng.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into English
• modes.xml - Translation modes

For more information

• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-eng-ibo
• 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.