README.md

Tamil and English: apertium-tam-eng

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

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

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)
• apertium-tam
• apertium-eng

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
# make install

You can use ./autogen.sh 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 "சோதனை வசனம்" | apertium -d . tam-eng
test sentence

$ echo "The boy threw fast." | apertium -d . eng-tam
பையன் வேகமாக எறிந்தான்.

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

$ echo "சோதனை வசனம்" | apertium tam-eng
test sentence

Files and data

• apertium-tam-eng.tam-eng.dix - Bilingual dictionary
• apertium-tam-eng.tam-eng.rtx - Structural transfer rules for translating into English
• apertium-tam-eng.eng-tam.rtx - Structural transfer rules for translating into Tamil
• apertium-tam-eng.tam-eng.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into English
• apertium-tam-eng.eng-tam.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into Tamil
• modes.xml - Translation modes

For more information

• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
• https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-tam-eng
• 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 (irc://irc.oftc.net/#apertium)

See also the file AUTHORS, included in this distribution.