NAME

opus2multi

SYNOPSIS

 # Combine all sentence alignments via Swedish 
 # for German, English, Spanish and French. 
 # The alignment units will cover the same English sentences.

 opus2multi /path/to/OPUS/corpus/RF/xml sv de en es fr

 # shortcut without full path to xml-dir 
 # (requires OPUS in some standard directory)

 opus2multi RF sv de en es fr

 # use intralingual links (for pivot language) to extend the data set
 # (useful for OpenSubtitles-corpora)

 opus2multi -a OpenSubtitles2016 sv de en es fr

USAGE

 opus2multi [OPTIONS] xmldir pivot [lang-ids]*

OUTPUT: sentence alignment files for all languages together with the pivot language

OPTIONS

 -e ................. keep segments with empty links in any of the languages
 -i pivot-links ..... intralingual pivot link file
 -a ................. same as -i but read intralingual links from xmldir/../alt/
 -s nr .............. max number of sentences in an alignment unit
 -h ................. this help

DESCRIPTION

 opus2multi [OPTIONS] xmldir pivot [lang-ids]*

combine sentence alignments for several language pairs using a pivot language as intermediate language for all other languages

 <xmldir> should be the path to the XML directory that contains 
          sentence alignment files
          for each individual language pair (e.g. xmldir/en-fr.xml.gz)
 <pivot> is the language ID of the pivot language (e.g. en)
 <lang-ids> are language IDs of the other language to be combined 
            in the multilingual corpus

LICENSE

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See also

This script is part of opus-tools https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/opus-tools See also OPUS http://opus.nlpl.eu for more information about the corpus.