Hi Fran,
The first project seems easier for me to grasp at this stage, hence I'd be
inclined to follow that one over the reordering trees. Had a quick flick
through the book on Google; I'm yet to find a library in this city holding
it.
Indeed a chat on IRC would be worthwhile. Nobody's on at the moment, but
I'll check back in tomorrow morning (about 9 hours from now). Look forward
to it.
Mitch
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Francis Tyers <[email protected]> wrote:
> El dj 24 de 03 de 2011 a les 00:49 +1100, en/na Mitchell Jeffrey va
> escriure:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Reading through the list of SoC project ideas, "Rule-based
> > finite-state disambiguation C14N" and "Tree-based reordering" in
> > particular take my fancy. My initial (under-researched and
> > oversimplified) understanding is that the first project would relate
> > to using finite state machines to remove ambiguity presented by a
> > given word having multiple context-specific meanings, and the second
> > to do with data structures used in the translation process.
>
> You got the right idea about the first project. For more information, I
> can highly recommend the book "Syntactic wordclass tagging" -- there are
> some pages you can review on Google Books -- otherwise your library may
> have it.
>
> For the second idea, I think you're missing some details.
>
> http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Dependency_based_re-ordering
>
> This gives some kind of overview.
>
> > I'm just about to finish my undergraduate degree (maths, physics, some
> > computer science); Apertium represents a way to combine my interests
> > in CS and language processing. Japanese is my second language (it
> > seems you don't have any East Asian languages in your translation
> > pairs), and I'd be very keen to read up on machine translation and
> > surrounding areas.
> >
> > If someone (Fran?) could spare the time to elaborate on the
> > aforementioned two projects, that'd be fantastic.
>
> I'm currently travelling, I'll be back tomorrow afternoon (UTC+1) and
> will be able to answer your questions better. Please come and hang
> around on IRC. :)
>
> Fran
>
>
>
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