Apertium

Apertium is a machine translation software which is developed by funding of the Spanish Government and the Government of Catalonia at the University of Alicante. It is free software and is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Apertium emerged as one of the machine translation programs of the project OpenTrad and was initially designed so that it translates between closely related languages. Lately, it has been extended so that it can work with languages, which exhibit greater differences. In order to develop a new machine translation system, only linguistic data (dictionaries and rules ) must be created in a well-defined XML format.

Voice data, which were developed for the software (in collaboration with the Universidade de Vigo Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra ) currently support the Romance languages ​​of Spain, Spanish, Catalan and Galician. Likewise, English, Portuguese, French, Occitan and Romanian as well as the planned language Esperanto are supported.

Credentials

• In English: Corbí - Bellot, M. et al. (2005) "An open-source shallow - transfer machine translation engine for the romance languages ​​of Spain" in Proceedings of the European Association for Machine Translation, 10th Annual Conference, Budapest 2005, pp. 79-86
• In English: Armentano - Oller, C. et al. (2006) "Open -source Portuguese - Spanish machine translation " in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3960 [ Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Processing of Written and Spoken Portuguese, PROPOR 2006], p 50 - 59