Swahili and Lingala: `apertium-swa-lin`
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This is an Apertium language pair for translating between Swahili and
Lingala. What you can use this language package for:

* Translating between Swahili and Lingala
* Morphological analysis of Swahili and Lingala
* Part-of-speech tagging of Swahili and Lingala

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

Requirements
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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-swa
* apertium-lin

If this does not make any sense, we recommend you look at: apertium.org.

Compiling
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Given the requirements being installed, you should be able to just run:

```console
$ ./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
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If you are in the source directory after running make, the following
commands should work:

```console
$ echo "TODO test sentence 1" | apertium -d . swa-lin
TODO test translated sentence 1

$ echo "TODO test sentence 2" | apertium -d . lin-swa
TODO test translated sentence 2
```

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

```console
$ echo "TODO test sentence 1" | apertium swa-lin
TODO test translated sentence 1
```

Files and data
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* [`apertium-swa-lin.swa-lin.dix`](apertium-swa-lin.swa-lin.dix) - Bilingual dictionary
* [`apertium-swa-lin.swa-lin.rtx`](apertium-swa-lin.swa-lin.rtx) - Structural transfer rules for translating into Lingala
* [`apertium-swa-lin.lin-swa.rtx`](apertium-swa-lin.lin-swa.rtx) - Structural transfer rules for translating into Swahili
* [`apertium-swa-lin.swa-lin.lrx`](apertium-swa-lin.swa-lin.lrx) - Lexical selection rules for translating into Lingala
* [`apertium-swa-lin.lin-swa.lrx`](apertium-swa-lin.lin-swa.lrx) - Lexical selection rules for translating into Swahili
* [`modes.xml`](modes.xml) - Translation modes

For more information
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* https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
* https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-swa-lin
* https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Using_an_lttoolbox_dictionary

Help and support
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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`](AUTHORS), included in this distribution.
