> Hi there, > > I have a proposal for GSOC but I do not know if publish it > explicitly in the wiki page: > > http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Ideas_for_Google_Summer_of_Code > > Premise: yes, I am still alive... Hu, well, after some tricky "political" > things at my University (L'Aquila, Italy) me and Antonio Barbieri, my > student in A.I. who is preparing a thesis in machine translation > for his MA, finally came to a definition which can be a proposal > for GSOC. > > After a skype conversation with Hector, I understood that one > of the problem with Romance languages is the fact that many > of them are pro-drop, and pronouns are even ambigous ("se" > in Catalan, Spanish, Portoguese, which becomes "si" in Italian). > > Furthermore, words like for instance "comunista" can be both > adjective ("un giornale comunista") or a noun ("un comunista arrabbiato") > and this poses a lot of problems -- well-known in the MT literature, BTW. > > My idea is to implement my morphosyntactic tree model for > disambiguation using Constraint Grammar as a start point, > and at the same time starting the it-eo language pair, that > I would maintain even after the ending of Antonio's MA thesis. > > For people interested, my model is called Constructive Adpositional > Grammars (CxAdGrams) and you can download legally a sample of > the book here: > > http://federicogobbo.name/en/cxadgrams.html > > However, I already found the camera-ready in non-legal sites, so > if you want the PDF of the book feel free to ask. This is not an > advertisement, in fact I gain no money in the book... :/ > > I know that Jacob and Hector can help me for the launching, > and also Antonio Toral gave me good advices. > > So, what do you think? Should I publish this idea? > > Thanks a lot, sorry if I was so long in this email... > > Federico > > PS > For my academic career, it would be nice for me to be a mentor, > but I understand that I am a newbie so it is not a request: the important > thing is that Antonio should finish his thesis by 1 October 2013. > Perhaps one of the actual mentor can be interested in it. Of course, > the review of the quality of translations it-eo is completely mine.
I don't really understand how the Constructive Adpositional Grammar works. Perhaps you could try a small toy implementation for example, using the "Where is James?" story to demonstrate the approach you would take. As far as a task idea for GSOC, I think this would come under "adopt a language pair", so your student should follow the coding challenge on the page there. Regards, and see you both on irc! Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
