Bug#1028061: apertium-hbs-eng: Errors shown against many translated words

[Tino Didriksen]

Agreed, direction eng-hbs doesn't look good. Direction hbs-eng looks much
better.

It is clear from
https://github.com/apertium/apertium-hbs-eng/tree/master/texts that this
pair was developed with hbs-eng in mind, and eng-hbs probably shouldn't
have been published. And
https://github.com/apertium/apertium-hbs-eng/blob/master/modes.xml
corroborates this with the comment that eng-hbs was only installed for
debugging.

If you wish to work on the eng-hbs performance, Apertium is always looking
for new contributors (OFTC #apertium). As for this bug, I think best I can
do in the short term is remove the eng-hbs direction.

(The PR (now merged) was just comments, so it couldn't affect quality.)

-- Tino Didriksen


On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 13:57, Peter Blackman <peter at pblackman.plus.com>
wrote:

> Package: apertium-hbs-eng
> Version: 0.5.1-2.1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> X-Debbugs-Cc: peter at pblackman.plus.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Translating a short test file using the language pair eng-hbs;
>
>          Mary had a little lamb.
>          It's fleece was white as snow.
>
>
> gave the result
>
>          #Marica #ima @a little @lamb.
>          #Free #biti *fleece #biti @white @as #snijeg#.
>
>
> Problems shown on every word except 'little' was is not translated anyway!
>
>
> Translating with eng-spa & eng-cat works well.
>
>
> The command 'apertium -l' shows many Eastern European language pairs with
> Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Macedonian.
> But the only way into this group from English, is via eng-hbs,
> hence my interest.
>
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> P.S.
> Upstream there is an outstanding three year old pull request.
> https://github.com/apertium/apertium-hbs-eng/pulls
>
> I tried patching this in, but it did not fix the problem.
>
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