Re: [Apertium-stuff] Spanish verb database

[Mikel L. F. <ml...@dl...>]

Dear Edo,

Thanks for your message.

I am copying this answer to the list ape...@li..., where many
Apertium experts meet. Here's my preliminary opinion.
>
> For this reason I am looking for a table (see the example below) with all
> the conjugations of all verbs in both English and Spanish, with a way of
> knowing when a verb is irregular or follows an irregular pattern (so the
> software can keep track of the student's knowledge of these verbs)
>
I have seen the Apertium website and I was wondering whether it would be
> possible to generate such a table using the Apertium software. Could you
> advise whether this is the case? If not, do you have any idea where I may
> find what I am looking for? Or perhaps direct me to somebody in your team
> that can help me?
>

OK, here's my impression:

   - All of the verbs in our vocabularies are classified in paradigms. Each
   paradigm has its name, usually patterned after an example. To distinguish
   irregular from regular verbs would mean identifying paradigm names
   corresponding to regular verbs, and then dealing with ther rest.
   - I think most, if not all, of the information you need is in our
   dictionaries (monolingual, bilingual). An XML expert would easily parse our
   XML files into tables similar to the one you show below. It is not trivial,
   but clearly doable.
   - Our licensing scheme means that any product derived from our XML files
   should bear the same license (GPL).

I hope you can find the time to point me in the right direction.
>
Let's see what other experts say.

Best

Mikel Forcada



> Best regards,
>
> Edo Plantinga
>
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>
> *English translation*
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> *Spanishtranslation*
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> *Tense*
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> *Person*
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> *Infinitive Spanish*
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> *Infinitive English*
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> *Grammar rule*
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> I eat
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> Como
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> Present
>
> 1st singular
>
> Comer
>
> To eat
>
> Regular –er verb
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> You eat
>
> Comes
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> Present
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> 2nd singular
>
> Comer
>
> To eat
>
> Regular –er verb
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> I put
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> Pongo
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> Present
>
> 1st singular
>
> Poner
>
> To put
>
> Unique exception: Poner gets an extra ‘g’ in the first person of the
> present tense
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