2010/10/27 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]>
> 2010/10/27 Jacob Nordfalk <[email protected]>:
> > Ive looked at http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Ideas_for_Google_Code-in
> > Do you really think anyone can:
> > 1) translate a text of 34,268 bytes (the new language pair HOWTO) into
> > another language
> > 2) go through it for a new pair of languages.
> > 3) When finished, upload to the Incubator.
> > in.... 2-3 HOURS!??!?!!!!?
> > Well, Ive tried that task when I started out. I might be extraordinary
> slow
> > but just doing step 1) would take me at least half a day for Esperanto.
> > Same goes for the other proposals: These <=18 age students must be really
> > bright, but in general I would multiply all your estimations with a
> factor
> >>3.
>
> The time estimates do seem rather low yes. However, I think they're
> supposed to reflect only the work that's on that specific task (since
> students can work on several tasks, so they won't install apertium for
> each task...)
>
>
OK, I missed that.
Still the above task is more like 3 days than 3 hours.
So my modified proposal would be:
Add 50 nouns to apertium-sv-da. Check that the words work for boths
directions (from Swedish to Danish and from Danish to Swedish).
Time: 10 hours
(understand the format of the 3 .dix files to edit: 2 hours. Adding the
words: 4 hours. Checking translation in both directions and fix problems: 4
hours).
I think this is much better than neck-breaking, time underestimated tasks.
We want language maintainers, right?
Then lets make a lot of teenage lang maintainers.
Not by breaking their necks, but by giving them tasks that are actually
completable by bright (bright; not overly lazer super duper the best out of
100) students.
Its a contest, so doing more than required will give extra points. I bet
most are going to try adding adjectives as well, ...
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