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APERTIUM(1)		     General Commands Manual		     APERTIUM(1)

NAME
     apertium -- machine translation application platform

SYNOPSIS
     apertium [-au] [-d datadir] [-f format] language-pair [infile [outfile]]

DESCRIPTION
     apertium is the application that most people will be using as it simplifies
     the use of apertium/lt-toolbox tools for machine translation purposes.

     This tool tries to ease the use of lt-toolbox (which contains all the lexi-
     cal  processing modules and tools) and apertium (which contains the rest of
     the engine) by providing a unique front-end to the end-user.

     The different modules behind the apertium machine translation  architecture
     are in order:

     de-formatter
	     Separates the text to be translated from the format information.

     morphological-analyser
	     Tokenizes the text in surface forms.

     part-of-speech tagger
	     Chooses one surface forms among homographs.

     lexical transfer module
	     Reads  each source-language lexical form and delivers a correspond-
	     ing target-language lexical form.

     structural transfer module
	     Detects fixed-length patterns of lexical forms (chunks or	phrases)
	     needing  special  processing due to grammatical divergences between
	     the two languages and performs the corresponding transformations.

     morphological generator
	     Delivers a target-language surface form  for  each  target-language
	     lexical form, by suitably inflecting it.

     post-generator
	     Performs  orthographical  operations such as contractions and apos-
	     trophations.

     re-formatter
	     Restores the format information encapsulated  by  the  de-formatter
	     into  the	translated  text and removes the encapsulation sequences
	     used to protect certain characters in the source text.

OPTIONS
     -d datadir
	     The directory holding the linguistic data.  By default it will  use
	     the expected installation path.

     language-pair
	     The language pair: LANG1-LANG2 (for instance "es-ca" or "ca-es").

     -f format
	     Specifies	the  format of the input and output files which can have
	     these values:

	     txt     (default value) Input and output files are in text format.

	     html    Input and output files are in "html" format.   This  "html"
		     is the one accepted by the vast majority of web browsers.

	     html-noent
		     Input and output files are in "html" format, but preserving
		     native  encoding characters rather than using HTML text en-
		     tities.

	     rtf     Input and output files are in "rtf" format.   The	accepted
		     "rtf"  is	the  one  generated by Microsoft WordPad and Mi-
		     crosoft Office up to and including Office 97.

     -u      Disable marking of unknown words with the `*' character.

     -H      Enable header-detection (only used in  some  language  pairs;  will
	     lead to stray `' a! characters in pairs that don't support it).

     -a      Enable marking of disambiguated words with the `=' character.

FILES
     These are the two files that can be used with this command:

     -m memory.tmx
	     use a translation memory to recycle translations

     -o direction
	     translation  direction  using  the  translation  memory, by default
	     "direction" is used instead

     -l      lists the available translation directions and exits direction typ-
	     ically, LANG1-LANG2, but see modes.xml in language data

     infile  Input file (stdin by default).

     outfile
	     Output file (stdout by default).

SEE ALSO
     apertium-tagger(1), lt-comp(1), lt-expand(1), lt-proc(1)

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad  de  Alicante.
     This  is  free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms
     of the GNU General Public License.

BUGS
     Many... lurking in the dark and waiting for you!

Apertium			  March 8, 2006 		     APERTIUM(1)

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