[Apertium-stuff] CCURL 2017 - 1st Call for papers

2017-11-08 Thread Mikel L. Forcada
[Apologies for multiple postings] CCURL 2018 Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages ‘Sustaining knowledge diversity in the digital age’ a Workshop to be held as part of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) at the Phoenix Seagaia

Re: [Apertium-stuff] is treating newlines the same as spaces the right thing to do ?

2017-11-08 Thread Francis Tyers
El 2017-11-08 13:56, Tommi A Pirinen escribió: [Replies inline] On Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:25:59 +0100 Francis Tyers wrote: My question is: Is this ever the right thing to do ? I struggle to come up with use cases for this. I'm not sure how hard it would be to fix. But I thought I'd start a discus

Re: [Apertium-stuff] is treating newlines the same as spaces the right thing to do ?

2017-11-08 Thread Tommi A Pirinen
[Replies inline] On Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:25:59 +0100 Francis Tyers wrote: > My question is: Is this ever the right thing to do ? I > struggle to come up with use cases for this. I'm not > sure how hard it would be to fix. But I thought I'd start > a discussion. I've been bitten by this, latest in

Re: [Apertium-stuff] is treating newlines the same as spaces the right thing to do ?

2017-11-08 Thread Tino Didriksen
I would say a single newline has no semantic meaning. Far too often, people just put a newline for formatting reasons. Identically, no-break-space has no semantic meaning - it's just formatting. It doesn't make sense to preserve single newlines, since the output would have wildly different line le

[Apertium-stuff] is treating newlines the same as spaces the right thing to do ?

2017-11-08 Thread Francis Tyers
Very many times people come to me and ask why they get a different number of lines out of lt-proc than they put in. The answer is invariably that there is some multiword that is gobbling up a newline. My question is: Is this ever the right thing to do ? I struggle to come up with use cases for t

[Apertium-stuff] GCI mentor emails

2017-11-08 Thread Vinit Ravishankar
Hi folks, To everyone who's registered as a mentor for GCI - could you lot please add your email addresses that you've registered with to the modified table on the wiki, here [1]? I need this for the task upload script. Thanks! – V 1 ​ - http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Task_ideas_for_Google_Code-