El ds 24 de 03 de 2012 a les 20:00 -0400, en/na Alexandru Blanda va
escriure:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Alexandru Blanda and I am a 3rd year undergraduate
> student(Computer Science) at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest,
> Romania.

Hi there!

> Regarding the project idea itself, I would like to ask you a few
> questions. The language pair I would like to adopt is French-Romanian.
> Romanian is my native language and I have a good knowledge of French.
> As I understand it, for the Apertium project it is advisable for the
> languages chosen for a pair, to be related. So, with that aspect in
> mind and given my knowledge of foreign languages, I chose
> French-Romanian rather than English-Romanian. In addition, I
> considered it to be a good choice given the fact that in the Incubator
> there was already some work done on the French-Romanian pair.

Good idea! But consider the following questions:

(a) Are there existing machine translation (MT) systems for this pair?
(b) If there are existing systems, how good are they? -- Could you do
better in three months? 
(c) How closely related is the pair? 
(d) How many resources already exist for the pair?

> After reading the proposed coding challenge and the recommended
> resources for the project, I managed to install Apertium and a
> language pair on my Ubuntu machine. I installed the Spanish-Romanian
> pair just to see how things work. At this point I have a question: is
> there any resource on the Apertium wiki that explains how to test the
> functionality of a language pair? For the es-ro language pair, that I
> have installed, I tried using the following command: "apertium es-ro
> input output". It worked for a small text. Is this the way to go? 

$ cat /tmp/ro.txt | apertium -d . ro-es | sed 's/#//g'
1       DÓNDE ES ION? 
2       Ion y Maria son en jardín. El tiempo es hermosa hoy, es muy caliente.
Ayer, mas,  sido muy @rece! No se pudieron jugar afuera. @Lui Ion y
*Mariei los gusta que se juegos, ellos  todo el tiempo afuera en el
jardín, ante la casa grandes.
3 Iones es un chiquillo y tiene 6 años. La chiquilla es la hermana suyo,
ella tiene 5 años. Ion tiene un perro pequeño, el perro es y él en el
jardín ahora. Al perro la gusta que se juegos con los dos niños. El
perro es muy feliz ahora.
4       Tiene y Maria un perro? No, Maria no tiene perro, ella tiene una gata.
La gata es mas en la casa, la gata duerme.
5       Madres suyos es en casa con la gata, se olvida a la ventana y la ve a
Ion y Maria jugándose. Ion huye rápidamente hacia un árbol grande y
anciano, él se esconde de Maria. Saber tú por qué? Maria queda con manos
ante los ojos. No puede ver nada y cuenta. Por qué hace ella eso?
También, qué hace Ion al lado del árbol?

> Also, should I start from scratch and build the dictionaries for the
> coding challenge, if I would like to contribute to a language pair
> that already exists in the Incubator(in my case French-Romanian)? 

I would recommend doing it at least once, for a small amount of text,
even though later you will use the stuff in incubator.

> Finally, as I figure things out, I would like some feedback on my
> proposed schedule for the project. Is it ok to post it on the list?

Of course! :)

Fran


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