Hello Okonkwo,

I agree with @hectora...@gmail.com <hectora...@gmail.com>. You should
probably consider rescoping your project to produce a monodix of good
quality.
One week is definitely not enough to work on transfer rules.

Best,
Ngadou Yopa

On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 14:52, Hèctor Alòs i Font <hectora...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Okonkwo,
>
> My remark is slightly different to Sevilay's. Igbo seems to be a language
> with quite a complex morphology. Wouldn't it make sense to work just on the
> morphological analyser (
> https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Ideas_for_Google_Summer_of_Code/Morphological_analyser
> ) ? Currently, apertium-ibo lexc file has some 200 words and no
> morphotactics. So the analyser should be done from scratch (maybe previous
> work in Apertium on another Niger-Congo language can help a bit).
> Otherwise, as Sevilay points, you'll have not enough time to work on
> transfer rules. And transfer between two very distant languages, like Igbo
> and English, is a major challenge. At least one whole GSoC should be
> devoted to it.
>
> Hèctor
>
> Missatge de Sevilay Bayatlı <sevilaybaya...@gmail.com> del dia ds., 10
> d’abr. 2021 a les 11:14:
>
>>
>> Hi Okonkwo,
>>
>> How many words you will be able to add into the monodix (and how many in
>> the bidix?), and what is your WER goal?
>>
>> Do you think 1 week is enough to work on transfer rules?
>>
>> Another thing, as I understand from your proposal your main focus on a
>> bilingual dictionary, the monodix needs more focus otherwise you can't good
>> result or you have to work simultaneously.
>>
>>
>> Sevilay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 12:42 PM Okonkwo Ifeanyichukwu <
>> ifeanyijaspe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My name is Okonkwo Ifeanyichukwu a final year student at the University
>>> of Buea. I am interested in participating in GSoC 2021, on the project -
>>> "Create a usable version of these language pair: English--Igbo".
>>>
>>> I am planning to build English(eng)-Ibo(ibo) MT pair. I have added some
>>> ibo words to ibo pair and pull request open. I have done some coding
>>> challenge but it still needs improvement. I will upload the translated
>>> story to Github with my work on the GitHub repository mentioned in the
>>> proposal draft. It would be of great help if I could get some feedback
>>> before I make the final submission.
>>>
>>>  Link to my proposal draft:
>>> Proposal Draft
>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iK_9VTqb5ZHH1bEjl5UAqBP77ijaNKm6p4HIT2JO5qk/edit?usp=sharing>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iK_9VTqb5ZHH1bEjl5UAqBP77ijaNKm6p4HIT2JO5qk/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Okonkwo
>>> IRC: Ifeanyi
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