[pet] [HoG] Spanish Language

[Ulrich Schaefer]

Hi Alex,
we don't have a ready-to-use solution for your request (that's also why 
the demo button for ES is still disabled). Although I'm interested in a 
running configuration for Spanish, I currently have no time and 
resources to work on this language. However, the ingredients, i.e. NLP 
components, are available. In principle, HoG modules exist for all these 
components (for other languages, though):
- FreeLing for PoS tagging and morphology 
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~nlp/freeling/
- (alternatively TreeTagger, but probably missing finer grained 
morphology/lexicon as required by the current deep grammar for Spanish  
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/corplex/TreeTagger/DecisionTreeTagger.html)
- PET and the Spanish Resource Grammar SRG http://www.delph-in.net/srg/
Montserrat and Luis can probably tell you more about what has to be done 
to get FreeLing+SRG to run (independently of HoG).
The recommended deep-shallow integration in HoG is now via new chart 
mapping interface (in addition to SRG, also the HoG FreeLing 
module/interface still would have to be adapted to chart mapping instead 
of SPPP). As "gold" example one could take the current 
TnT/Sprout/PET+ERG integration for English (from current HoG SVN trunk) 
except that the Spanish integration would in addition also include a 
lexicon/morphology mapping from FreeLing (Montserrat and Luis are still 
working on this I guess). However, please be aware that a robust online 
integration of the pipeline requires deep knowledge about the different 
formats, configurations, mappings, systems and underlying resources.

best,
-Uli


Sikorsky, Aleksey schrieb:
>
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> My name is Alex and I work for a development company. My current task 
> is researching available open source NLP solutions and I think 
> HoG(PET) is the most appropriate open-source solution for us. The 
> problem is that our future product has to be able to work with Spanish 
> language. I've reviewed all available documentation and resources and 
> cannot definitely to say that HoG(PET) supports Spanish Language. For 
> example, User&Development Documentation available on Web Site contains 
> information that some modules support Spanish but some don't. 
> Additionally, HoG Demo 
> Page(http://www.dfki.de/~uschaefer/php/Demo.html 
> <http://www.dfki.de/%7Euschaefer/php/Demo.html>) contains Spanish 
> language, but corresponding radio-button is disabled. Moreover 
> downloaded binaries (or sources) contains specific Spanish data (maybe 
> it is grammar dictionary for one of the modules).  
>
>  
>
> Could you explain me the problem with Spanish Language if this one 
> exists? Why is Spanish-Radio-button disabled on Demo Page? It will be 
> great if you explain me the steps or troubles that allow me to 
> integrate Spanish.
>
>  
>
> I will be glad to hear any information about that.  Thank you very 
> much for help.
>
>  
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alex.
>


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