https://ahmedsiam.com/page/Recent content in Pages on Ahmed Siam JournalHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 18 Apr 2025 17:48:42 +0000https://ahmedsiam.com/gsoc-2023-report-internationalization-of-apertium-tools/Sun, 27 Aug 2023 23:08:14 +0000https://ahmedsiam.com/gsoc-2023-report-internationalization-of-apertium-tools/<p>This project aims to <a class="link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >internationalize</a> Apertium tools so that they can be <a class="link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >localized</a> easily to other languages, which makes usage of Apertium tools easier for non-English users. I have done this by building and using a <a class="link" href="https://github.com/apertium/icuformat" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >library</a> that wraps <a class="link" href="https://icu.unicode.org/#h.i33fakvpjb7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >ICU4C</a>, which supports Unicode and internationalization.</p> <h1 id="background">Background </h1><ul> <li> <p>Apertium is a rule-based machine translation toolchain and ecosystem.</p> </li> <li> <p>Apertium tools were hard-coded as English only.</p> </li> </ul> <h2 id="achieved-goals">Achieved Goals </h2><ul> <li> <p>Internationalized Apertium tools.</p> </li> <li> <p>Assigned codes to error/warning messages for easy search online.</p> </li> <li> <p>Created a wiki page for each warning/error in the <a class="link" href="https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Category:Error_Codes" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Apertium wiki</a> (except for apertium-recursive and lexd repos).</p> </li> </ul> <h2 id="future-goals">Future Goals </h2><ul> <li> <p>Make wiki pages for apertium-recursive and lexd errors/warnings</p> </li> <li> <p>More testing.</p> </li> <li> <p>Simplify code and rephrase messages to be more useful.</p> </li> <li> <p>Help in adding languages other than English (<a class="link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Localization</a>).</p> </li> </ul> <h2 id="source-code">Source Code </h2><ul> <li><a class="link" href="https://apertium.projectjj.com/gsoc2023/ahmedsiam0.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >https://apertium.projectjj.com/gsoc2023/ahmedsiam0.html</a></li> </ul> https://ahmedsiam.com/archives/Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ahmedsiam.com/archives/https://ahmedsiam.com/search/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://ahmedsiam.com/search/