bminixhofer/nlprule

Questions about adding a new language

chris4540 opened this issue · 4 comments

chris4540 commented

Hi,

I would like to ask if it is easy to add a new language?

If so, are there any good reference to guess how to add it?

Best,
Chris

bminixhofer commented

Hi, thanks for the issue! Which language are you interested in?

It is not trivial to add a new language because there is some language-specific code in LanguageTool which has to be adapted (e. g. subtly different tokenization or language specific heuristics).

The main bottleneck for adding a language at the moment is documentation since you would likely have to make some changes in the internals of NLPRule and they are not well documented right now.

That said, I am currently working on support for Spanish and making a guide for how to add new languages. That should make it much easier to do so.

neoscopio commented

Hi, I'll be interested in contributing work to add Portuguese (pt_PT) language. I'll be waiting for some start-up guide. Thanks for your work.

bminixhofer commented

Thanks for letting me know! Yes that got delayed a bit because there's been lots of other improvements recently (#22, #24, multiword tagging). It is on my radar but it will take some more time.

bminixhofer commented

This is now tracked in #46.