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
