Hi all,
My name is Sagie, I'm a first-year CS & Linguistics student at Tel Aviv
University.
I have a 6 years professional programming experience, and have been interested
and participating in open source software for an even longer time.
I wasn't familiar with Apertium before Summer of Code, but after doing a little
research I'm very excited at the opportunity to participate in it.
I do have two quick questions regarding the posted GSoC ideas:
I would love to adopt a language pair, namely an English-Hebrew one.
I noticed there's a resource link posted for Hebrew in the incubator:
http://www.mila.cs.technion.ac.il/english/resources/lexicons/
But this page only seem to list examples to some very basic lexicon collections.
Since I'm not familiar with the amount of data required for a language pair, my
question is how difficult will creating a new pair out of this kind of data
would be? Is the data even good enough?
More generally, I wanted to ask about the theoretical background needed for
some of the ideas.
A lot of the tasks use professional lingo and it's hard to infer the actual
work needed.
I'm now taking my first Computational Linguistics course, which is a seminar
based on Daniel Jurafsky's "Speech and Language Processing"
http://books.google.com/books?id=fZmj5UNK8AQC
I talked to my professor about Apertium and he said we will cover most of
what's needed for working on MTs such as Apertium.
My question is, how can I now tell which of the ideas would suit my theory
background?
Or do you think I should just stick to Entry-level tasks?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks,
--
Your friend in time,
Sagie Maoz
[email protected] // +1 (347) 556.5044 // +972 (52) 834-3339
http://sagie.maoz.info/ http://n0nick.net/
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