Hi all,
I've spoken with Francis a few times over e-mail and been on IRC a bit, but
I don't think I've introduced myself to the whole listhost. I'm a
third-year student at the University of Chicago, majoring in linguistics
with a minor in Comp Sci. Most of my programming experience is doing
various analyses of text files in C, so it seemed that of all the project
ideas, the lint tester for suspicious constructs in .dix files would be the
best for me (I thought about proposing a Japanese-English language pair,
but Google does a fairly OK job with Japanese as it is, and there's no way
I could surpass that in three months). I've already written a duplicate tag
checker in C and sent it out to the listhost earlier today, and I've been
thinking about how I'd implement some of the other suggestions on the lint
tester ideas page, as well as a few ideas of my own. The problem, though,
is that I'm not sure how I'd be able to fill up the whole summer doing it!
This is my tentative schedule:
Week 1: Redundant Entry Finder
Week 2: Testing Full Entries in Lemmas where Part of the Lemma is Specified
by the Pardef
Week 3: Testing Misspelled Tags and Pardefs
Week 4: Testing Incompatible Tags (multiple gender tags instead of combined
tags for nouns of ambiguous gender, multiple number tags, a "noun" and
"adj" tag on the same entry)
Week 5: Testing Tag Missing on One Side of Translation Equivalents (a
"noun" tag on the English side, but not on the Spanish side)
Week 6: Testing Missing Gender on Gendered Languages (this would be an
intricate one... I'd have to investigate which of the languages in the
language pairs have gender or noun class systems and have the program take
that into account)
But not all of those would necessarily take up a week, and there's no way
that all of this will take 12 weeks! So I've been thinking about common
errors that might show up in transfer rules files, but nothing's really
come to mind. Has anyone else noticed common mistakes in .dix or transfer
rules files that would be suitable for this kind of program to look for?
Best,
Aaron Rubin
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