NAME

lt-compose — compiled dictionary composition for Apertium

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

lt-compose is the application responsible for composing two compiled dictionaries, matching the output-side of transducer1 with the input-side of transducer2. By default, matches are anchored to initial/final states, so the transducer2 has to match full paths (in regex terms, transducer2 is implicitly surrounded by ^ and $). But there is also support for letting transducer2 match sub-paths of transducer1 (in which matches become optional, making the composition a superset of transducer1). Matching sub-paths means that transducer2 can start matching in the midst of paths of transducer2 (in regex terms, transducer2 is implicitly surrounded in .* on both sides).

OPTIONS

-i, --inverted

Apply transducer2 to the input-side (left) of transducer1 instead of the output-side. You would do this when altering the forms of an analyser.

-a, --anywhere

Allow transducer2 to match sub-paths instead of requiring matching initial/final states. Matches then become optional.

-j, --jobs

Parallelise composition by using one cpu core per section of transducer1. You can also set the environment variable LT_JOBS=true if you always want parallelisation where available in lttoolbox.

FILES

transducer1_binary

a finite state transducer

transducer2_binary

a finite state transducer

composed_binary

a finite state transducer

SEE ALSO

apertium(1), apertium-tagger(1), lt-comp(1), lt-expand(1), lt-print(1), lt-trim(1), lt-proc(1)

AUTHOR

Copyright © 2005-2022 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

BUGS

Many... lurking in the dark and waiting for you!