NAME

       lt-proc - This application is part of the lexical processing modules and tools ( lttoolbox
       )

       This   tool   is   part   of    the    apertium    machine    translation    architecture:
       http://apertium.sf.net.

SYNOPSIS

       lt-proc [ -a | -g | -n | -p | -s | -v | -h ] fst_file [input_file [output_file]]

       lt-proc  [  --analysis  |  --generation  |  --non-marked-gen | --post-generation | --sao |
       --version | --help ] fst_file [input_file [output_file]]

DESCRIPTION

       lt-proc  is  the  application  responsible  of  providing  the  four  lexical   processing
       functionalities

              • morphological analyser  ( option -a )

              • lexical transfer  ( option -n )

              • morphological generator  ( option -g )

              • post-generator  ( option -p )

       It  accomplishes  these  tasks  by reading binary files containing a compact and efficient
       representation of dictionaries (a  class  of  finite-state  transducers  called  augmented
       letter transducers). These files are generated by lt-comp(1).

       It  is  worth  to  mention that some characters (`[', `]', `$', `^', `/', `+') are special
       chars used for format and encapsulation. They should be escaped if they have  to  be  used
       literally, for instance: `['...`]' are ignored and the format of a linefeed is `^...$'.

OPTIONS

       -a, --analysis
              Tokenizes  the  text  in  surface forms (lexical units as they appear in texts) and
              delivers, for each surface form, one or more lexical  forms  consisting  of  lemma,
              lexical  category  and  morphological  inflection  information. Tokenization is not
              straightforward due to the existence, on the one hand, of contractions, and, on the
              other  hand,  of  multi-word lexical units. For contractions, the system reads in a
              single surface form and delivers  the  corresponding  sequence  of  lexical  forms.
              Multi-word  surface  forms  are analysed in a left-to-right, longest-match fashion.
              Multi-word surface forms may be invariable (such as  a  multi-word  preposition  or
              conjunction)  or  inflected (for example, in es, "echaban de menos", "they missed",
              is a form of the imperfect indicative tense of  the  verb  "echar  de  menos",  "to
              miss").  Limited  support  for some kinds of discontinuous multi-word units is also
              available. Single-word surface forms analysis produces output like the one in these
              examples:    "cantar"    ->    `^cantar/cantar<vblex><inf>$'    or   "cantaba"   ->
              `^cantaba/cantar<vblex><pii><p1><sg>/cantar<vblex><pii><p3><sg>$'.

       -g, --generation
              Delivers a target-language surface form for each target-language lexical  form,  by
              suitably inflecting it.

       -n, --non-marked-gen
              Morphological generation (like -g) but without unknown word marks (asterisk `*').

       -p, --post-generation
              Performs  orthographical  operations  such as contractions and apostrophations. The
              post-generator is usually dormant (just copies the input to  the  output)  until  a
              special alarm symbol contained in some target-language surface forms wakes it up to
              perform a particular string transformation if  necessary;  then  it  goes  back  to
              sleep.

       -s, --sao
              Input  processing  is  in  orthoepikon (previosuly `sao') annotation system format:
              http://orthoepikon.sf.net.

       -v, --version
              Display the version number.

       -h, --help
              Display this help.

FILES

       input_file The input compiled dictionary.

SEE ALSO

       lt-expand(1), lt-comp(1), apertium-tagger(1), apertium-translator(1).

BUGS

       Lots of...lurking in the dark and waiting for you!

AUTHOR

       (c) 2005,2006 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante. All rights reserved.

                                            2006-03-23                                 lt-proc(1)