Basaa and btc: `apertium-bas-btc`
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This is an Apertium language pair for translating between Basaa and
btc. What you can use this language package for:

* Translating between Basaa and btc
* Morphological analysis of Basaa and btc
* Part-of-speech tagging of Basaa and btc

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-bas
* apertium-btc

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:

    $ ./configure
    $ make
    # make install

You can use `./autogen.sh` instead of `./configure` you're compiling from
source. If you installed any prerequisite language packages using a `--prefix`
to `./configure`, make sure to give the same `--prefix` to `./configure` here.

Testing
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If you are in the source directory after running make, the following
commands should work:

    $  echo "TODO test sentence 1" | apertium -d . bas-btc
    TODO test translated sentence 1

    $ echo "TODO test sentence 2" | apertium -d . btc-bas
    TODO test translated sentence 2

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

    $  echo "TODO test sentence 1" | apertium bas-btc
    TODO test translated sentence 1

Files and data
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* `apertium-bas-btc.bas-btc.dix`  - Bilingual dictionary
* `apertium-bas-btc.bas-btc.t1x`  - Chunking rules for translating into btc
* `apertium-bas-btc.btc-bas.t1x`  - Chunking rules for translating into Basaa
* `apertium-bas-btc.bas-btc.t2x`  - Interchunk rules for translating into btc
* `apertium-bas-btc.btc-bas.t2x`  - Interchunk rules for translating into Basaa
* `apertium-bas-btc.bas-btc.t3x`  - Postchunk rules for translating into btc
* `apertium-bas-btc.btc-bas.t3x`  - Postchunk rules for translating into Basaa
* `apertium-bas-btc.bas-btc.lrx`  - Lexical selection rules for translating into btc
* `apertium-bas-btc.btc-bas.lrx`  - Lexical selection rules for translating into Basaa
* `modes.xml`                     - Translation modes

For more information
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* https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
* https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-bas-btc
* 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`

See also the file AUTHORS included in this distribution.
