On 7 April 2011 15:25, Juan Miguel Cejuela <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Apertium members, > > I'm a Spanish computer scientist currently doing my Master at Technical > University of Munich (TUM) This is my fourth and last semester and what I > have left is my master thesis. I'm still considering different thesis > projects. Besides, I had a strong desire to work this year on a GSoC project > but I was about to dismiss this idea due to the big timeline overlap between > both projects, both requiring full dedication, because of the > European/German university calendar. My final idea was the possibility to > combine both my master thesis and the GSoC project into the same endeavor. > > It's been a great surprise to find just today your group and your proposals. > I'm highly interested in machine translation and in particular interested in > transducers and hidden Markov models ---the analysis of sequential data in > general--- > and have a good firsthand experience with these tools and understanding of > the mathematical background behind. As a matter of fact, for example, I'm > now about to submit a paper, together with my advisor Hasan Ibne Akram, to > FSMNLP 2011 on an EM algorithm for weighted transducers. In this paper I > further elaborate with more details the algorithm designed by Eisner [1] and > adapt it to log space to work with it on a machine in practice. > > So for example for your ideas I'm interested in the projects where > transducers are involved. I've already checked with my university and it is > possible to combine both the master thesis and the GSoC project together, > and Hasan Ibne Akram is willing to become my thesis's advisor for such a > project in conjunction with a mentor from you for the GSoC project. It's > also possible from the Google side. >
Sure. > So before further elaborating on an exact project, my question for you, > mainly for Jimregan, Francis Tyers, and Jacob Nordfalk, is: would you be > interested in such a project, mentoring a GSoC project that would be further > expanded to comply with the higher requirements of a master thesis? > I take it, then, that you're interested in either flag diacritics, or regexes in lt-proc? If you have your own idea to suggest, by all means, suggest it. > I'm aware of the organizational difficulties such a project would involved > but because I'd love to work on it I'm sure I will make it work. > I don't see why it would necessarily be any more difficult than any other project. One more 'mentor' is generally a good thing. > I'm in the irc channel (jmcejuela) if you wanna chat (en español, English, > oder Deutsch) > > > Thanks :-) > > > [1] Jason Eisner, Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Finite-State > Transducers, ACL 2002 > > > > -- > Juan Miguel Cejuela > jmcejuela.com > [email protected] > twitting @jmcejuela > +49 176 627 581 05 > > 1s+ Yo* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling 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
