Rapid rule-based machine translation between Dutch and Afrikaans
Pim Otte, BT Haarlem, Francis Morton Tyers · 2011
This paper describes the design, development and evaluation of a machine translation system between Dutch and Afrikaans developed over a period of around a month and a half. The system relies heavily on the re-use of existing publically available resources such as Wiktionary, Wikipedia and the Apertium machine translation platform. A method of translating compound words between the languages by means of left-to-right longest match lookup is also introduced and evaluated.