Meeting Jan 16

Participants: Antti, Conor, Trond - later: Sjur

!!!Issues



!!!Presentation

* web page
** Online analyser
** Form generator
** Paradigm generator
* pikiskwewina
** as dictionary and click-in-text
* Spellchecker
** for the same text
* learning tools based on Saami slides


syllabics conversion

Goal:
* to have two spellcheckers (or one spellchecker understanding both)
* Romanian as Roman
* Bulgarian as Syllabics
* Syllabics conversion online
* demo syllabics


__TODO__

Trond to:
* Send a list of relevant Oahpa presentations (Lene)
* Look at cgi-bin: conversion to/from syllabics
* look at the wrapped syllabic fst

Sjur to:
* look at the wrapped syllabic fst
* Take a trip to Bulgaria

Conor to:
* Add words, look at the linguistics



!!!Speller

How to have a speller

{{{
go to langs/crk, and issue these commands:

./configure --with-hfst --enable-spellers
make
sudo make install
}}}


* Download LibreOffice if you do not have it already \\
  (must be version 4.1 or newer).
* download & install oxt (Mac version): \\
  [http://divvun.no/static_files/voikko-2013-06-26.oxt]
** restart LibreOffice if it was already open
* Open a new text document, write some text, select all
** e.g. in the lower margin of your document it says:
   ''Default Style US English''
* Click on the language name, and choose More...
* set the language to Romanian (or soon: Bulgarian). Romanian (and Bulgarian)
  should have a blue "ABC" in front of it in the language drop down menu).

To update the speller:
* add a new noun
* make
* sudo make install
* restart LibreOffice

To repeat this on Windows:

* Download and install LibreOffice (at least 4.1)
* download and install the Windows beta oxt:
  [http://www.puimula.org/htp/testing/voikko-sma-fi.oxt]
* build the speller on a mac or linux machine, final file can be found in:
  {{crk/tools/spellcheckers/fstbased/hfst/crk.zhfst}}
* copy this zhfst file to the Windows machine, place it in:
  {{to-be-added}}

!!Text for the presentation

[http://www.ualberta.ca/~arppe/PlainsCree.html]


The text:

{{{
nitêminân nipâw sisone iskwatemihk.
dog+N+Pl1Ex sleeps+V beside+PART door+N+LOC

waniskâw kîkisepâ.
wakes.up+V morning+N 

waniskâw ekwa nohtekatew.
wakes.up+V and+PART is.hungry+V

wâpahtam ôskanisis wiyâkanihk ekwa mîciw.
sees+V bone+N+DIM bowl+N+LOC and+PART eats+V

ekota-ohci nôhkwâtam wiyâkan.
here.from+PART licks+V bowl+N

keyâpic nohtekatew ekwa kâwe nipâw.
still+PART is.hungry+V and+PART again+PART sleeps+V
}}}

Issues to fix:

* waniskâw
** Trond to fix the waniskâw x 14 (due to Trond's flag diacritic experiments).
* nohtekatew	nohtekatew	+?
** VAI, to be added
* nôhkwâtam	nôhkwâtam	+? Conor: Check with Dorothy
** VTA ??
* mîciw	mîciw	+?
** VTA to be added
* ekota-ohci	ekota-ohci	+?



!!!Diminutives

Working with a productive analyser for now.



!!!yaml files

Conor has checked files and added verb types.
Different verb types are to be checked in.


!!!Verbs

Subjunctive prefix ê-

In writing:
* Either: always ê-
* Or: êh in front of vowels, no mark (thus, just an ê) in front of consonants

Solution:

Two prefixes in lexc:

* ê-
* êh^%eh

and then to h deletion before %^eh in twolc

The tag is now +Sbj, an alternative is +Conjunct mode, +Cnj, so we could do that.

__Decided: Use +Cnj__

!!!Dictionary

More words in the dictionary, especially the words of the text.
Input here: comma separated stuff to {{crkeng/inc/}}:

{{main/words/langs/crkeng/inc/nouns.csv}}

{{{
cat inc/nouns.csv 
atim	n	dog
inini	n	man	
nâpês	n	boy	
apiscacihkos	n	antelope
mâyatihk	n	bighorn sheep
atihk	n	caribou
apisimôsnos	n	deer
wâwaskêsniw	n	elk
mistatim	n	horse
môswa	n	moose
maskwa	n	bear
okistatowân	n	grizzly bear
wâpask	n	polar bear
sîsîp	n	duck
môhkomân	n	knife
sakâw	n	soup
mîcimâpo	n	soup
sîsîpâwi	n	duck egg
wâwi	n	egg
iskwêw	n	woman
nipâw	v	sleep
wâpam	v	see

  <e>
    <lg>
      <l pos="N">sakâw</l>
    </lg>
    <mg>
      <tg>
        <t pos="N">soup</t>
      </tg>
    </mg>
  </e>
}}}

Results to be added to

main/words/langs/crkeng/src/N_crkeng.xml

Procedure for updating the dictionary (needed: account on the gtweb machine):

[/doc/dicts/nds/NDSUpdatingDictionaries.html]

(with pikiskwewina or guusaaw as the variable for DICT)

# Log in to the server via SSH as the NDS user \\
  in the following way: \\ 
  {{ssh neahtta@gtweb.uit.no}} \\ 
  with a password
# Then follow the instructions on the page


!!!Length on ê

Many writers do not write ê. The analyser handles both, but
we should consistently always write e.g. __with__ macron in the code.