El dg 03 de 04 de 2011 a les 01:15 +0300, en/na Sagie Maoz va escriure: > Dear All, > > > I'm happy to attach my application draft for a GSoC project, a > Maltese-Hebrew language pair. > I will be happy to hear your thoughts and comments, particularly on > when should I submit it at the Google Melange site. > > > Please find my application available > at http://sagie.maoz.info/apertium-application.pdf.
Hi, nice application... I think you are underselling yourself though. I've chatted with you a bit on IRC, and I think you have already gathered quite a lot of references, possible sources of information for both languages. So it might be a good idea to have a section in your proposal "Resources" (and include here grammars, dictionaries etc.) If you are able to get access to the morphological analyser for Hebrew before the 8th it should be included in your application. If you are not able to, then it should be assumed that it is _not_ available, and the time plan should be adjusted accordingly. Note that "promised access to" is not quite the same as "will be released under the GPL" -- which would be our requirement for using it. I'm not sure if a morphological analyser for Maltese exists, but if it does, then the same goes for that as for the Hebrew one. I'm not sure about the "Renaissance of Hebrew and Maltese" reference. Perhaps there is a more scholarly reference available ? * bellow -> below Where are you expecting to find a parallel corpus for Hebrew and Maltese ? One person you might try contacting on this question is Adam Ussishkin, who I met at SEPLN and is a nice guy. I'm missing a bit of a description of the languages, and some potential transfer problems. I'm not expecting you to have done all the work, but some examples would be nice :) Perhaps you could demonstrate by translating the examples from http://wiki.apertium.eu/index.php/Appendix_A:_Frequency as a computer would ? ==Week plan== * Are you going to be using separate frequency lists for Hebrew and Maltese ? If so, then might you not end up with having to take the intersection and losing words -- thus not completely effectively using your time ? * Another idea might be to just use a frequency list from the Maltese side ? * I think you are optimistic about getting useful handtagged corpora for both Maltese and Hebrew -- in order to include them in your proposal, you should have them _before_ the 8th April. Otherwise assume that they don't exist... remember Zigglebottom. * Even if you do get hand tagged corpora, you would need to convert them to the tagset of your analyser(s), and also you might need to fix tokenisation issues. * I think that a week for working on the bilingual dictionary is too little. When working from a language that you don't know into one that you do know, you need to be particularly careful. For Macedonian--English, it took me approx 8 days. And I have quite a lot of experience. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.nlp.apertium/285 The thanks in Maltese/Hebrew is a really nice touch :) Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
