This is an Apertium language pair for translating between Bengali and Hindi. What you can use this language package for:

• Translating between Bengali and Hindi
• Morphological analysis of Bengali and Hindi
• Part-of-speech tagging of Bengali and Hindi

For information on the latter two points, see subheading "For more information" below.

You will need the following software installed:

• lttoolbox (>= 3.3.0)
• apertium (>= 3.3.0)
• vislcg3 (>= 0.9.9.10297)
• apertium-ben
• apertium-hin

If this does not make any sense, we recommend you look at: www.apertium.org.

Given the requirements being installed, you should be able to just run:

$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

You can use ./autogen.sh instead of ./configure in case you're compiling from source. If you installed any prerequisite language packages using a --prefix with ./configure, make sure to use the same --prefix when running ./configure here.

If you are in the source directory after running make, the following commands should work:

$ echo "জেমস আর মেরি বাগানে আছে" | apertium -d . ben-hin
जेम्स और मैरी बगीचे में है

$ echo "जेम्स और मैरी बगीचे में है" | apertium -d . hin-ben
জেমস আর মেরি বাগানে আছে

After installing somewhere in $PATH, you should be able to do e.g.

$ echo "জেমস আর মেরি বাগানে আছে" | apertium ben-hin
जेम्स और मैरी बगीचे में है

• apertium-ben-hin.ben-hin.dix - Bilingual dictionary
• apertium-ben-hin.ben-hin.t1x - Chunking rules for translating into Hindi
• apertium-ben-hin.hin-ben.t1x - Chunking rules for translating into Bengali
• apertium-ben-hin.ben-hin.t2x - Interchunk rules for translating into Hindi
• apertium-ben-hin.hin-ben.t2x - Interchunk rules for translating into Bengali
• apertium-ben-hin.ben-hin.t3x - Postchunk rules for translating into Hindi
• apertium-ben-hin.hin-ben.t3x - Postchunk rules for translating into Bengali
• apertium-ben-hin.ben-hin.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into Hindi
• apertium-ben-hin.hin-ben.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into Bengali
• modes.xml - Translation modes

• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-ben-hin
• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Using_an_lttoolbox_dictionary

If you need help using this language pair or data, you can contact:

• Mailing list: [email protected]
• IRC: #apertium on irc.freenode.net (irc://irc.freenode.net/#apertium)

See also the file AUTHORS, included in this distribution.