Daily Compiling Of Apertium Files

For each language pair you first compile each language.

Compiling the Saami languages and Finnish and Estonian in the giella infrastructure

We assume you have installed the giella infrastructure already. The Saami languages and Finnish are found in their respective folders in $GTHOME/langs/.

Go to the relevant language folder, here e.g. sme, and set up the configuration for MT:

cd $GTHOME/langs/sme/
./configure --with-hfst --enable-apertium --enable-reverse-intersect

Estonian is set up in the same way, but in $GTHOME/startup-langs/est/ (do not use langs/est). Compile as usual:

time make -j

Now, be prepared to wait, from 15 minutes to several hours depending upon the language and your computer. The compilation procedure will store the binary files in tools/mt/apertium in each language folder and the apertium compilers will read them from that location.

While waiting, do the same for the other language(s) you want. Go to the folder of the other language you want to translate as well (sma, smj, smn), so that one for e.g. sme-sma must compile sme and sma. Remember to reset the .configure option afterwards, e.g. to ./configure if that is what you use for FST work.

To chech the file, write:

ls -l tools/mt/apertium/*.gz

If everything went well, you have new .gz files in the apertium folder.

Compiling Bokmål (for sme-nob, sma-nob, smj-nob)

For Bokmål, we do not use the Giellatekno version, but the one on Apertium github, for nob:

• https://github.com/apertium/apertium-nob

In the apertium-nob folder do:

./autogen.sh
make -j

Compiling the MT program itself

All language pairs (also the Giellatekno/Divvun ones, e.g. sme-sma) are stored on Apertium github:

• https://github.com/apertium/apertium-sme-nob
• https://github.com/apertium/apertium-sme-sma
• etc. for other language pairs, cf. the full list

For each language pair you must, in the folder of the language pair, set up a pointer to the respective languages:

For sme-sma (pairs with two giella languages), do this in the Apertium folder, e.g. apertium-sme-sma:

./autogen.sh --with-lang1=/path/to/giellatekno/langs/sme/tools/mt/apertium --with-lang2=/path/to/giellatekno/langs/sma/tools/mt/apertium
make -j

For pairs with one Apertium language, e.g. sme-nob, do this in apertium-sme-nob:

./autogen.sh --with-lang1=/path/to/giellatekno/langs/sme/tools/mt/apertium --with-lang2=/path/to/apertium-nob
make -j

The command to test that everything is ok is, in each folder:

echo ja | apertium -d. sme-nob
echo ja | apertium -d. sme-sma
etc.

In case of trouble

cg compiler version mismatch

You may get this type of error message:

$ echo ja | apertium -d . fin-est
Error: Grammar revision is 9705, but this loader requires 10043 or later!

Now, you may have an old vislcg3 / cg-proc compiler. Test that:

vislcg3 --version
cg-proc --version

If the number you get (0.9.9.10195) is lower than the error message requires, you should update vislcg3. It may be, however, that the version number is ok but you still get the error message. In that case, you have old binary files although you have updated your compeler. In that case,

• in the apertium-LANG1-LANG2 folder, write make clean
• in the $GTHOME/langs/LANG/ folder, delete the tools/mt/apertium/*.gz files

Thereafter, repeat the installation procedure.

More

... to be written, when reported.