Maltese and Arabic

                            apertium-mt-ar
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This is an Apertium language pair for translating from Maltese to
Arabic. What you can use this language package for:

* Translating from Maltese to Arabic
* Morphological analysis of Maltese
* Part-of-speech tagging of Maltese

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 (>= 3.1.2)
* apertium (>= 3.1.1)
* vislcg3 (>= 0.9.7.8354)

If this does not make any sense, we recommend you look at: www.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
SVN. If you're using a --prefix to ./configure, make sure it's the
same one you used to install apertium itself.

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

$  echo "Ilbieraħ kien kiesaħ ħafna." | apertium -d . mt-ar
امس كان باردا جدا.

After installing somewhere in $PATH, you should be able to do eg.

$ echo "Ilbieraħ kien kiesaħ ħafna." | apertium mt-ar
امس كان باردا جدا.


Files and data
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* apertium-mt-ar.mt.dix            - Monolingual dictionary for Maltese
* apertium-mt-ar.ar.dix            - Monolingual dictionary for Arabic
* apertium-mt-ar.mt-ar.dix         - Bilingual dictionary 
* apertium-mt-ar.mt-ar.rlx         - Constraint Grammar for Maltese
* apertium-mt-ar.mt-ar.t1x         - Chunker rules for translating into Arabic
* apertium-mt-ar.mt-ar.t2x         - Interchunk rules for translating into Arabic
* apertium-mt-ar.mt-ar.t3x         - Postchunk rules for translating into Arabic
* mt-ar.prob                       - Tagger model for Maltese
* modes.xml                        - Translation modes


For more information
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* http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
* http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Using_an_lttoolbox_dictionary
* http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Constraint_Grammar

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.freenode.net

See also the file AUTHORS included in this distribution.
