Comments on: Don’t mind the boxes http://gramtrans.com/2007/08/dont-mind-the-boxes/ Grammar Based Machine Translation Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:55:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Tino Didriksen http://gramtrans.com/2007/08/dont-mind-the-boxes/#comment-605 Tino Didriksen Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:22:54 +0000 http://gramtrans.com/2007/08/dont-mind-the-boxes/#comment-605 If you are unable to use the proper letters Ææ Øø Åå then Aa Oo Aa should work in most cases. We have a filter that corrects e.g. "prast" to the far more likely "præst" (priest/minister) because it knows "prast" does not occur in Danish and then finds candidates that could have been the result of a transliteration. http://visl.dk/2007/05/diacritics-and-transliteration/ is an older news post regarding the filter. As for what they are called, Wikipedia has some good articles: Ææ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86 Øø: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98 Åå: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85 If you are unable to use the proper letters Ææ Øø Åå then Aa Oo Aa should work in most cases. We have a filter that corrects e.g. “prast” to the far more likely “præst” (priest/minister) because it knows “prast” does not occur in Danish and then finds candidates that could have been the result of a transliteration.

http://visl.dk/2007/05/diacritics-and-transliteration/ is an older news post regarding the filter.

As for what they are called, Wikipedia has some good articles:
Ææ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86
Øø: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98
Åå: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85

]]> By: Louise Randolph http://gramtrans.com/2007/08/dont-mind-the-boxes/#comment-604 Louise Randolph Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:39:41 +0000 http://gramtrans.com/2007/08/dont-mind-the-boxes/#comment-604 I appreciate your site as it is helping me with genealogy, my hobby. I am wondering if you have some English substitutes for the "o" with the slash through it and the "a" with a little zero at the top. I have tried a ? but that doesn't seem to work. (and what are they called?) Thanks for your good work. I appreciate your site as it is helping me with genealogy, my hobby.
I am wondering if you have some English substitutes for the “o” with the slash through it and the “a” with a little zero at the top. I have tried a ? but that doesn’t seem to work. (and what are they called?)
Thanks for your good work.

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