1. Because no one created Such pair ,You can create if you are interested in it. :)
On 4/18/13, Gang Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Apertiumers. > > My name is Gang Chen. Currently, I am a 2-nd year postgraduate pursuing > the MS degree, majoring in Natural Language Processing, Peking University, > China. > > I have a great interest in applying for working with Apertium in GSOC-2013. > > I have been in touch with machine translation since 2 years ago. > For the recent 2 years, I have been interning in a machine translation team > in > an Internet company. I had brought up 2 language pairs (Spanish-Chinese and > Russian-Chinese) into service online, from parallel raw data. We used > statistical > machine translation models. Besides that, I processed large amounts of > bilingual > and monolingual text, for improving translation quality. Some machine > learning > techniques were also used. > > However, there seems to be a trend in the statistical MT community to > employ more > linguistic knowledge. Luckily, during my undergraduate years, I had chances > to > participate as a member in developing some rule-based NLP systems, such as > a CFG > parser for Chinese, the construction of a WordNet-like Chinese ontology, a > lexical > similarity software, and a POS tagging software, etc. I have a great > interest on > the rule-based methods, because it is based on solid linguistic analyses, > and with > the goal of understanding a language. > > > Among the ideas listed on the idea page, I am mostly attracted by: > > 1."Corpus-based lexicalised feature transfer" > 2."Sliding-window part-of-speech tagger" > > I had some experience in processing corpus and implementing an HMM POS > tagger, and > hope that may help. > > So far, I have read through the documentation and have a general > understanding of > the build blocks in Apertium. Also I had Apertium installed, but there > seeems to be > a PCRE problem as you guys discussed about these days. > > > I got a little bit confused about two questions here: > > 1. Chinese is my native language. It seems that there isn't a Chinese-XXX > pair > in Apertium. Is it because of the following reasons: there is online > translation > services good enough for Chiense? or Chinese is a morphology-poor language > and > thus less related to other languages? > > 2. How does Apertium look on statistical methods being used in the > platform? > Does Apertium plan more statistical methods to be integrated? > > > > It would be great to have your guidance on how to make further preparations > :-) > > > Thank you. > > > > Best regards, > Gang Chen > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
