Machine Translation

Introduction

UralicNLP provides functionality to connect to different translation services over their APIs. The main supported services are Apertium and Yandex

The translator API

Translator objects have two methods get_languages() and translate(text, source, target). Get_languages gives a dictionary consisting of language codes of the supported languages. The keys indicate the supported source language and the values the supported target languages.

translator.get_languages()
>> {u'est': [u'est_estspell', u'est_estgram'], u'nob': [u'fao'], u'smn': [u'fin', u'sme'], u'fao': [u'nno', u'fao_faospell', u'fao_faogram', u'nob'], u'sme': [u'fin', u'sme_smespell', u'sma', u'sme_smegram', u'nob', u'smj', u'smn'], u'fin': [u'sme', u'smn', u'fin_fingram', u'fin_finspell'], u'sma': [u'sme', u'sma_smagram', u'nob', u'sma_smaspell'], u'smj': [u'nob', u'sme', u'smj_smjgram', u'smj_smjspell']}

Apertium

from uralicNLP.translate import *
translator = ApertiumGiellateknoTranslator()
translator.translate("kissa juoksee kovaa", "fin","sme")
>> u"gáhttu viehká garrasa"