El dj 18 de 04 de 2013 a les 03:33 -0400, en/na Gang Chen va escriure: > Hi, Apertiumers. >
Hi Gang! > I have a great interest in applying for working with Apertium in > GSOC-2013. :) > > > 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" Cool, have you looked into doing the coding challenges for either of those ? > 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. Did you manage to fix it ? > 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? Well, we don't have it because nobody has made it yet :) Also, despite the morphological simplicity, translating to/from Chinese is hard, as it is very dissimilar from other languages we have already in Apertium. I don't think the issues are insurmountable, but it would be difficult to fit into a GSOC project. > 2. How does Apertium look on statistical methods being used in the > platform? > Does Apertium plan more statistical methods to be integrated? We do include statistical methods in Apertium, either in the form of learning rules (for transfer and lexical selection), or directly as in the HMM-based POS tagger. We are always interested in improving translation quality, and are happy for both statistical methods and rule-based methods to be used. Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
