Basaa (`apertium-bas`)
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This is an Apertium monolingual language package for Basaa. What
you can use this language package for:

* Morphological analysis of Basaa
* Morphological generation of Basaa
* Part-of-speech tagging of Basaa

Requirements
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You will need the following software installed:

* lttoolbox (>= 3.3.0)
* apertium (>= 3.3.0)
* vislcg3 (>= 0.9.9.10297)
* hfst (>= 3.8.2)

If this does not make any sense, we recommend you look at: apertium.org.

Compiling
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Given the requirements being installed, you should be able to just run:

    $ ./configure
    $ make

You can use `./autogen.sh` instead of `./configure` if you're compiling
from source.

If you're doing development, you don't have to install the data, you
can use it directly from this directory.

If you are installing this language package as a prerequisite for an
Apertium translation pair, then do (typically as root / with sudo):

    # make install

You can give a `--prefix` to `./configure` to install as a non-root user,
but make sure to use the same prefix when installing the translation
pair and any other language packages.

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

    $  echo "TODO: test sentence" | apertium -d . bas-morph
    TODO: test analysis result

    $ echo "TODO: test sentence" | apertium -d . bas-tagger
    TODO: test tagger result

Files and data
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* `apertium-bas.bas.lexc`          - Morphotactic dictionary
* `apertium-bas.bas.twol`          - Morphophonological rules
* `apertium-bas.bas.rlx`           - Constraint Grammar disambiguation rules
* `apertium-bas.post-bas.dix`      - Post-generator
* `bas.prob`                       - Tagger model
* `modes.xml`                      - Translation modes

For more information
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* https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
* https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-bas
* https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Using_an_lttoolbox_dictionary

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.oftc.net`

See also the file AUTHORS included in this distribution.