.TH apertium\-interchunk 1 2007-03-11 "" ""
.SH NAME
apertium\-interchunk \- This application is part of
(
.B apertium
)
.PP
This tool is part of the apertium machine translation
architecture: \fBhttp://apertium.org\fR.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B apertium\-interchunk
[\-tz] trules preproc [input [output]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This is an intermediate tool from Apertium level 2 engine. You should
never have to use it independently.
.PP
It is the second transfer module of the Apertium level 2 transfer model after
\fIapertium-transfer\fR and before \fIapertium-postchunk\fR.
.PP
It takes care of interchunk processing operations such as chunk
reordering, changes in the morphosyntactical features of chunks
according to the information in neighboring chunks, or generating new
chunks.
.SH OPTIONS
  \-t         trace mode
  \-z         flush buffer on the null character
.SH FILES
These are the kinds of files that can be used with this command:
.PP
.B trules
A rules file with extension \fI.t2x\fR.
.PP
.B preproc
A file with extension \fI.t2x.bin\fR that holds the result of
preprocessing the \fItrules\fR file with
\fIapertium-preprocess-transfer\fR.
.PP
.B input, output
Represent the input and output files. By default they are the standard
input and standard output.
.SH SEE ALSO
.I apertium\-gen\-modes\fR(1),
.I apertium\-postchunk\fR(1),
.I apertium\-transfer\fR(1),
.I apertium\-validate\-interchunk\fR(1),
.I apertium\-validate\-modes\fR(1),
.I apertium\-validate\-postchunk\fR(1).
.SH BUGS
Lots of them...lurking in the dark and waiting for you!
.SH AUTHOR
(c) 2005-2007 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de
Alicante. This is free software.  You may
redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.