lukesilva/compoglot-poc

An opensource developer friendly localization program (Proof of concept)

#THIS REPOSITORY IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT

This repository served as a testing ground for this idea, to find out whether it would, or would not work. This project is now being properly redesigned, and completely rewritten.

What is Compoglot?

Compoglot defines a subset of natural language that is common between a variety of different natural languages. Perfect machine translations can be made from this common subset into these natural languages with the compoglot tool, allowing developers to create localisations for a variety of different languages, without knowing every single language that they wish to target.

The compoglot language is extremely explicit. It has separate definitions in its language for every separate meaning. This means that it has at least two different translations for the English word "glass", one for the material (The window is made of glass), and one for the drinking instrument (I drink out of a glass). As these two different meanings may have different words or spellings related to them in different languages, they have different entries in the compoglot language. This (along with many other explicit features) allows for accurate machine translation from compoglot's language to a natural language.

Can I see an example?

Note that the compoglot code doesn't change in all of the examples, only the language name.

What languages does compoglot support?

English, German and Esperanto

compoglot-poc's Issues

Les garcons qu'elle a invite's etaient sympathiques

The relative clause changes (add s to invite'), because of where it is positioned in the main clause.

Will need to take care of this in the next compoglot

German needs adverbs

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Case of prepositions in german is not automatically set

Will need another version of the verb to fly

There is two definitions:
to move through the air with wings, like a bird or airplane
to travel in an airplane or flying vehicle

German contraction of prepositions still gives an articles

Eg:
Ich tauche in das Wasser
Dieser Satz soll "Ich tauche ins Wasser" werden.
Aber es wird "Ich tauche ins das Wasser"

This sentence should become "Ich tauche ins Wasser"
But it becomes "Ich tauche ins das Wasser"

German usage of 'zu' for infinitives may not be accurate

http://lang-8.com/732137/journals/148834048847364331036814569620928725141

No good way to create time adverbials

Seperatable verbs in german do not have a proper infinitive form

"An klagen" is generated in documentation...

English Indefinite articles do not function correctly.

"A action" is produced instead of "An action"

Get Compoglot to work correctly on Windows

Need better way of creating questions

Question words should be part of sentence parts, and the appropriate sentence part should be fronted.
This should occur for all questions not relating to time or mode.

Verb 137 needs a changed order in german

IE:
Er hobt sie das Buch.
not
Er hobt das Buch sie.

Adverbials will come after the non direct objects, instead of before them in English

Ability to substitute verbs for auxiliaries

Eg: If you get home before I [get home|do]

Commas are not always created properly in relative clauses in german.

"Ein Verb, das Verantwortung, oder Wahrscheinlichkeit ab bildet,."