El 2017-04-02 12:27, Mikel L. Forcada escribió:
> Dear Masha,
>
> I still have to be convinced that this is an Apertium project as I do
> not see any connection to the core in Apertium, namely,
> shallow-transfer rule-based machine translation (other mentors may
> correct me as I may have missed something).
>
> What would be the impact of having this tool in improving the language
> resources currently used in Apertium? How would it improve Apertium to
> be used as a machine translation system or a better language
> processor?
Here are my thoughts:
1) The standardised annotated corpora available through the UD project
could be immensely useful to training the disambiguation component
of Apertium.
2) Our current annotatrix tool is functional, but in practice we are
unlikely to get many people doing Apertium-specific annotation. Thus
if we want to be able to train (e.g. the tagger) we should get a
"cheaper ride"
by using what is already there and free.
3) In the Turkic languages we are already doing a lot of annotation,
which has
been used for different purposes and there are efforts for other
languages too:
$ find /home/fran/source/apertium/ -name '*.conllu' | wc -l
23
4) We have previously done projects (like the HFST project) which have
immensely helped Apertium, although they weren't specifically working
on Apertium core code.
5) If the project is selected it will be good publicity for Apertium in
another
community that is seriously concerned about linguistic diversity and
creating free/open-source linguistic resources.
That said, it isn't a 100% Apertium project, but I think mentors should
"rank with their conscience" in this case.
Fran
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