Hi, some comments below: On Tue, Oct 9, 2012, at 16:14, Francis Tyers wrote: > El dt 09 de 10 de 2012 a les 15:14 +0200, en/na [email protected] va > escriure: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:41:41AM +0200, Per Tunedal wrote: > > > Hej Keld, > > > I liked your algo but had to think it over. After I've slept on, it a > > > few things got into my mind: > > > --snip-- > > > > Maybe there are other ways too. If you test your algo you might find a > > > pattern of links likely to be less fruitful than others. Or someone > > > might come up with a theoretical way to figure it out? > > > > yes, that is a possibility. Maybe the linguists here know more about such > > algos? > > See below. > > > > Maybe there are similar algos around for related applications, like > > > spell checking, statistical translation (tree model or even factored > > > translation, look at Moses), speech recognition or even artificial > > > intelligence? And you mentioned finding the shortest way. Someone might > > > have an idea of where to look for algos? There might be some open source > > > code to copy or be inspired by. > > http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/ukb/
Excellent. It's always useful to take part of the experiences of others. > > > > BTW Just like you I'm into this just for the fun of it. I will only work > > > with things that are of great interests to me. Primarily, I like to > > > solve problems. Or help others to solve theirs. > > > > Yes, agree. I think that also discussing on the list without doing > > commits is contributing to the Apertium project. > > And I would like to contribute more (I have done some committs already) > > but I am stuck with committs because I am not getting > > the advice from more seasoned people, that I am in my limited understanding > > thinking that I need guidance on, to not hurt the overall system > > or the specific language pair I am working on, or to not violate Apertium > > design principles. > > Here is what I think: > > * For Swedish-Danish this will be unnecessary. > * For other language pairs in Apertium, there are no free WordNets. Thus > the method would have zero applicability. > > So, it doesn't seem to be a very fruitful avenue for investigation at > the moment. Perhaps it could be once there is a language pair to test it > on ? > > Regards, > > Fran > Well, I have been writing about skipping non-fruitful avenues in my replies, but maybe this is interesting and not that hard to implement? What about giving it a try, just for the fun of it? The experience might turn out fruitful in the future for this project or an other (Spell check? If I mistype and happen to write an other word: were instead of where? Lamp instead of lamb? See e.g. http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html , future work point 4.) Yours, Per Tunedal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
