GiellaLT Documentation

GiellaLT provides rule-based language technology aimed at minority and indigenous languages

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Linguistic analysis

Instead of compiling the grammatical tools yourself (as described elsewhere on these pages), you may also download ready-compiled analysers for text analysis. This page explains how. If you have compiled the tools on your machine, we recommend this page instead.

Automatic grammatical analysis

Summary: When you have downloaded the files (cf. the Download… links below), you will be able to run the following command in a terminal window (the language code sme is for North Saami, for other languages, see below):

cat yourtextfile.txt | hfst-tokenise -cg sme.pmhfst | vislcg3 -g sme.cg3 

The textfile is sent through a two-step analysis: First through the morphological analyser sme.pmhfst, by using the support program hfst-tokenise. The flag -cg ensures morphological analysis in the required format. Thereafter the output is disambiguated with the disambiguator sme.cg3, by using the support program vislcg3. The flag -g identifies the file sme.cg3 as the grammar file. In order to see more options, you may write hfst-tokenise -h and vislcg3 -h.

You may also conduct automatic dictionary lookup, see below.

Download commands

1. Download the required support programs

These commands will download the compilers hfst and vislcg3. They require a unix system. For use on Windows, see below.

Download on Mac:

curl http://apertium.projectjj.com/osx/install-nightly.sh > install-nightly.sh
chmod a+x install-nightly.sh
sudo ./install-nightly.sh

Download on Linux ubuntu:

wget https://apertium.projectjj.com/apt/install-nightly.sh -O - | sudo bash
sudo apt-get -f install apertium-all-dev

Download on Linux fedora:

curl https://apertium.projectjj.com/rpm/install-nightly.sh |sudo bash
sudo apt-get -f install apertium-all-devel

2. Download the analyser and disambiguator for your language:

You will need both morphology and syntax. We use sme as an example:

Morphological analyser:

curl https://gtsvn.uit.no/biggies/trunk/bin/sme/tokeniser-disamb-gt-desc.pmhfst > sme.pmhfst

Syntactic disambiguator:

curl https://gtsvn.uit.no/biggies/trunk/bin/sme/disambiguator.cg3 > sme.cg3

NOTE! For North Sámi (but not for the other languages) you also should run this command:

curl https://gtsvn.uit.no/biggies/trunk/bin/sme/semsets.cg3 > semsets.cg3

The file semset.cg3 should be in the same catalogue as the file sme.cg3.

Replace the language code sme with the language you want (note! the language code is mentioned twice in the commands above, replace both!):

More languages may be added upon request, from this list.

Download other programs

dictionaries

You may also use the Neahttadigisánit dictionaries on the command line. Warning!! The program to be downloaded here gives translation equivalent only, not explanations or example sentences. For dictionary lookup the online dictionaries are thus far better, these programs are good for automatic lookup.

Dictionary lookup:

curl https://gtsvn.uit.no/biggies/trunk/bin/sme/smenob-all.fst > smenob.fst
curl https://gtsvn.uit.no/biggies/trunk/bin/sme/nobsme-all.fst > nobsme.fst

For other languages, replace sme/smenob-all.fst above with smn/smnfin-all.fst, smn/finsmn-all.fst, sma/smanob-all.fst, sma/nobsma-all.fst, and correspondingly for smenob.fst etc.

The dictionaries may be used in two ways:

Word analysers

curl https://gtsvn.uit.no/biggies/trunk/bin/smn/smn.hfstol > smn.hfstol

Spellers

curl https://gtsvn.uit.no/biggies/trunk/bin/smn/smn.zhfst > smn.zhfst

Running the analysers on Windows:

All the above works on Linux and Mac. In order to make it work on Windows, do the following:

Install a Linux shell. It is not too complicated, but requires admin rights on your machine. Thereafter, execute the commands for Linux ubuntu above.