El dc 15 de 02 de 2012 a les 14:27 +0400, en/na Hèctor Alòs i Font va escriure: > 2012/2/15 Francis Tyers <[email protected]> > El dc 15 de 02 de 2012 a les 06:31 +0100, en/na Mikel Forcada > va > escriure: > > Hi Apertiumers: > > > > As Fran has said, I'd like to be a mentor this year. > > > > Some of my (Computer Engineering) students are interested in > applying, > > and I am at loss for ideas regarding improvements in the > engine, except > > for: improving the speed of the virtual-machine transfer. > Suggestions > > welcome! > > > > I still have to announce Apertium to my Translation > students, and I was > > thinking. Would it make much sense to have tasks where some > language > > pairs are ironed out by improving their vocabulary, adding > rules, etc.? > > I am thinking of pairs such as English–Spanish. > > > I think a nice project would be to take a pair in trunk and > bring it up > to really useful quality. I'm thinking e.g. > Spanish--Portuguese or > Spanish--Italian. > > > A suggestion might be working in one field but improving the quality > of different language pairs, e.g. morphological and lexical > disambiguation. A student working in this field may concentrate in a > piece of Apertium (+ maybe related tools, as CG) and work in several > language pairs, instead of the different kind specialisation we > usually do: one pair, all the Apertium levels. As Apertium translators > are increasingly adding new processes and tools in the pipe, it seems > that this kind of specialisation can be more and more desirable.
Actually yes, this would be another good idea. Improve disambiguation of English in all pairs for example. Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
