On 5 April 2011 21:24, HelioH <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > my name is Helio Henrique Lopes Costa Monte Alto and I am a Computer > Science student at Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Maringá State > University), located in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. I am in 4th year (the > last year) of my course, and I do undergraduate research project. My > research area is related to Intelligent Systems Development, with > focus on multi-agent systems and ontologies. Currently, I’m focused on > ontologies, which includes ontology languages, such as OWL and RDF. > > I’m interested in machine translation because I think it is a growing > area and it increasingly needs to be improved. I imagine that, in a > not too distant future, people with different native languages will > not have trouble in communicating, thanks to translation technologies > incorporated into personal devices. I think an open source project > aiming at building language tools is an amazing initiative. It allows > the software to be continually improved by the community for the > benefit of all. > > I’m interested in '''Dictionary induction from wikis''', because it > would be very useful for automatically building dictionaries for > Apertium, and also for myself, because I’m going to be able to acquire > more knowledge about ontology queries (RDF queries, for example). > Therefore, it will be good for my researches on ontologies. >
The idea is that part of the project will collect general information in RDF, but part of it is also to convert that information into Apertium's dictionary format. > About my experience: apart from my research, I've worked on some > projects from University. I think my main work until now is a software > system for the university restaurant of my University, which includes > inventory management, menu management and a not fully implemented yet > (because of bureaucratic reasons with the University's policy) ticket > selling and controlling manager (tickets for consumption in the > restaurant, which is currently done manually). With this one, I > acquired more experience with Java and MySQL, but I've already worked > with C++, PHP, Python, C and Assembly. Recently, I've been exploring > multiagents frameworks and ontology frameworks, such as JENA. > > > == Questions about my application == > > Basically, I will have to design and implement queries to wikis' > databases, extract the useful information from the results and then > build dictionaries from these informations, right? Since interpreting > page content from wikipedia (and other sources which, I think, are not > semantically organized) is not a trivial task (I think so), and I'd > like to work with ontologies, I was wondering if I could work only > with DBpedia. > Wikipedia is semi-structured. Categories have been mapped manually (in DBpedia), but inferences based on those could be improved (for example, 'Battle of Waterloo' could have the category 'Napoleon', which would give it a type of 'Person', which is not correct). As we're primarily interested in linguistic information, Wiktionary is a higher priority source. > > I've already created an account on Apertium's wiki, my page is: > http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/User:Helioh2. I'm still working on my > proposal, which is available on that page. I will try to be in IRC > whenever possible, too. My name in IRC: helioh2. Ok, let us know when you've done some more work on the proposal. -- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
