Re: [gulliver] Logiciels Libres en Breton

[Francis Tyers <spectre at ivixor dot net>]

El vie, 12-09-2008 a las 11:59 +0200, David MENTRE escribió:
> Hi Fran,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:37, Francis Tyers <spectre at ivixor dot net> wrote:
> > Thanks! These people have a TermBret (which I hadn't seen before!) It
> > could be really useful as it gives morphological information along with
> > the translation (e.g. lemma, gender, plural for nouns).
> >
> >  ordinateur | urzhiataer | g. | urzhiataerioù
> >  dictionnaire  | geriadur | g. | geriadurioù
> >  accessoire | adpezh | g. | adpezhioù
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > It is a shame that it isn't available under a free (libre) licence :(
> 
> Yes. But why not asking to them to release it under a free license? We
> can even translate your request in French if needed. Most of the time,
> people don't even know about Free Software and related concepts.

Ok! Here is the request:

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Dear Sirs,

I am writing to ask if you might consider making all or part of the
TermBret term bank available under a free (open-source) licence. 

As a student in the Universitat d'Alacant in Spain I have been working
on a morphological analyser for Breton[4]. Morphological analysis is an
important part of many language technologies, for example spell-checkers
and grammar-checkers. 

I have managed to extract a fair amount of vocabulary from both the
French and Breton Wiktionaries[1][2] and the Breton Wikipedia[3], but
need quite a lot more to get a reasonable coverage (which currently
stands at around 60-70% for open-domain text.

My primary interest would be to receive permission to use the
inflectional information under a GPL-compatible licence. The
inflectional information is the part that describes how a word inflects.
For example:

  urzhiataer | g. | urzhiataerioù
  geriadur | g. | geriadurioù
  adpezh | g. | adpezhioù

This would be the most useful. If you are also able to make the
translations available, that would be good, but secondary.

Many thanks for your time, and for considering this request,

Francis Tyers

1. http://fr.wiktionary.org/
2. http://br.wiktionary.org/
3. http://br.wikipedia.org/
4. http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/~fran/breton/ -- currently recognises
~26,000 Breton word forms (from ~4,000 lemmas)

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Btw, if you think it is relevant, you could include this link, which is
about a similar request to the Welsh Language Board for their Welsh
terminology lists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/14/freeourdata.opensource

Thanks again!

Fran