Aiming to be in Vancouver for much of the week. Will definitely be coming to the session to learn about Joshua.
My interests in Joshua are support based - how can I support y'all better as a mentor, and how can I support those at my dayjob using Joshua get involved. Learning a bit more about how it works will be a plus :) Hen On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > This sounds cool folks. > I'll be there for the entire conference ... I hope. > I think we should jump on Matt's suggestion to meetup on Thursday. Time > TBC. > @Matt, can you put a wiki page together and we can get an agenda together? > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/JOSHUA/Joshua+%28Incubating%29+Home > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:04 AM, kellen sunderland < > kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My use case for Joshua involves creating internal scalable web services > to > > translate text across several language arcs. Most of the code changes I > > (and others on my team) aim to contribute focus on Joshua stability and > > performance. So far my work has been mostly around speeding up decoding > > and training speed (I hope to have some significant patches incoming > around > > the time of the Con). > > > > I'll go ahead and book flights to Vancouver as well. Hope to see most of > > you there. > > > > -Kellen > > > > > > I'm going to look into making a short trip. I think I'd arrive on the > > 11th and then leave on > > Friday the 13th. Could we plan a meet up for the night of Thursday the > > 12th? It'd be great > > to meet everyone (and having a deadline would help me prioritize :) ) > > > > matt > > > > > > > On Mar 15, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > > lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Matt, > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Matt Post <p...@cs.jhu.edu> wrote: > > > > > >> Whoa! Lewis, can you give some more detail on this talk, what you > > >> proposed, and what you plan to talk about? > > >> > > > > > > http://sched.co/6OJI > > > > > > > > >> > > >> I haven't ever been to ApacheCon, but am interested in going. I don't > > have > > >> much of a feel for what motivates folks outside the academic research > > >> community, and that would be good to have in laying out projects that > > might > > >> interest people. > > >> > > > > > > I agree. Would be great to meet you there. We could have a Joshua > meetup. > > > > > > > > >> > > >> Regarding those project, I have a number of them. Perhaps it would be > > >> useful to flesh them out with some more detail, and perhaps post them, > > for > > >> those who are interested. First, with respect to Tommaso's question, > the > > >> following: > > >> > > >> - Use cases. I'd really like to push machine translation as a black > box, > > >> where people can download and use models, not caring how they work, > and > > >> building on top of them. I think this could be transformative. I've > just > > >> added to Joshua the ability to add, store, and manage custom phrasal > > >> translation rules, which would let people take a model and add their > own > > >> translations on top of it, perhaps correcting mistakes as they > encounter > > >> them. There's a JSON API for it (undocumented). > > >> > > >> Building this up would also require pulling together lots of different > > >> test sets, evaluating changes, and so on. > > >> > > >> - Neural nets. This is a huge research area. I think the advantages > are > > >> that it could enable releasing models that are much smaller. However, > on > > >> the down side, it's not clear what the best way to integrate these > > models > > >> into Joshua is. Fully neural attention models would require > > re-architecting > > >> Joshua, as they are essentially a new paradigm. Adding neural > > components as > > >> feature functions that interact with the existing decoding algorithm > > would > > >> be an intermediate step. > > >> > > > > > > OK. This sounds like bang on for a meet up topic. Regardless of who is > > > there, we could have a Webex or something similar for the incubating > > > community, > > > > > > > > >> > > >> For other projects, I'd love: > > >> > > >> - Better documentation, developer and end-user (probably I need to > > write a > > >> lot of this; if nothing else, it would be hugely useful to me in terms > > of > > >> prioritizing to know that people want it) > > > > > > > > >> - Rewriting certain components. The tuning modules, in particular, > are a > > >> real mess, and should be synthesized and improved. > > >> > > >> - Replacing Moses components. Joshua can call out to Moses to build > > phrase > > >> tables; it would be nice to get rid of this (and wouldn't be that > hard) > > >> with our own Java implementations. It would also be good to add a > > >> lexicalized distortion model to the phrase-based decoder. > > >> > > >> > > > These all sound excellent and would all make very reasonable GSoC > > projects, > > > Thanks > > > Lewis > > > > > > -- > *Lewis* >
