Resources for Closely Related Languages Files

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README: Resources for Closely Related Languages Afrikaans and Dutch Lists and Rules
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File name:  various
Full name:  Afrikaans and Dutch Lists and Rules
Version:    1.0.2
Size:       6.31 Mb
URL:        http://rcrl.sourceforge.net (previously: http://d2ac-a2dc.sourceforge.net)

Language:   Afrikaans; Dutch; English

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When using the Afrikaans and Dutch files, please cite: 

Van Huyssteen, G. and Pilon, S. 2009. Rule-based Conversion of Closely-related Languages: A Dutch-to-Afrikaans Convertor.
20th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA). Stellenbosch, South Africa. pp 23-28.
http://www.prasa.org/index.php/proceedings.html


Copyright (c) 2010 Centre for Text Technology (CTexT), North-West University, South Africa.
 
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike  2.5 South Africa License
URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/za/ 
 
Attribute work to: Centre for Text Technology (CTexT), North-West University.
Attribute work to URL:  http://www.nwu.ac.za/ctext  


Developers: GB van Huyssteen, S Pilon (linguists), MJ Puttkammer and M Schlemmer (programmers), assisted by various students and colleagues, including Liesbeth Augustinus, Kirsten Arnauts, Veronique de Gres, Shanna Pettens, Carla-Mari van den Heever, and Daan Wissing.


When using the original METIS II evaluation data, please cite:

Vandeghinste, V., Dirix, P., Schuurman, I., Markantonatou, S., Sofianopoulos, S., Vassiliou, M., Yannoutsou, O., Badia, T., Melero, M., Boleda, G., Carl, M., and Schmidt, P., “Evaluation of a machine translation system for low resource languages: METIS-II”, Proc. of the 6th intern. LREC, Marrakech, 2008, pp 449-456.


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Notes:

1. The data in Afrikaans2Dutch.1.0.2 and Dutch2Afrikaans.1.0.2 is used in conjunction with the convertor. 
   Please refer to the README in the "Convertor" folder.

2. The data in TestData.1.0.2 is used for evaluation purposes.