GSoC 2023 Report: Internationalization of Apertium Tools
This project aims to internationalize Apertium tools so that they can be localized easily to other languages, which makes usage of Apertium tools easier for non-English users. I have done this by building and using a library that wraps ICU4C, which supports Unicode and internationalization.
Background
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Apertium is a rule-based machine translation toolchain and ecosystem.
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Apertium tools were hard-coded as English only.
Achieved Goals
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Internationalized Apertium tools.
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Assigned codes to error/warning messages for easy search online.
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Created a wiki page for each warning/error in the Apertium wiki (except for apertium-recursive and lexd repos).
Future Goals
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Make wiki pages for apertium-recursive and lexd errors/warnings
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More testing.
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Simplify code and rephrase messages to be more useful.
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Help in adding languages other than English (Localization).