Hi everybody,
I am Daniel Torregrosa, student in the Official master in computer
technologies and graduated in Computer science engineering, both
in Universidad de Alicante. Two years ago, I knew that Apertium development
started here, and got somewhat involved with the project during the last
years of my career. As last year project, I developed Simpledix, a simple
web-based dictionary maintenance tool, mentored by Mikel. I am interested
in applying to GSoC with this project, giving it some of the functionality
it needs for becoming part of the toolset of Apertium developers.
As Mikel stated, the tool needs some work for being useful. I propose some
tasks for this project:
- A simple, painless way of generating the configuration. Currently, you
can only generate configuration files manually, by using an interactive
script (that asks you to include each paradigm of the dictionary), or by
using a configurable automatic script. Improving the automatic script or
making a GUI could be answers to this problem. This task includes improving
the configuration files for adding some functionality to them, like the
ordering of the paradigms.
- Interface improvements. Current interface is somewhat cumbersome, and
it shows some raw xml data that could distract the user. I could further
extend this making a responsive interface, so developers can work on the
dictionaries using a tablet or smartphone.
- Supporting more kinds of entries and dictionaries. Currently, tool
only manages “standard” dix files, and the simplest (but most usual) kind
of entry ( <e> <i/> <par/> </e>). I think adding support to some metadix
formats, and for the most usual entries in the dictionaries needs to be on
the project.
I encourage developers to test Simpledix (
http://apertium.vm.bytemark.co.uk/simpledix). It only has configuration
files for the es-ca pair, but it would give you a better understanding of
the current state of the tool, and see how it could be improved.
If somebody needs a bit more information, you can read the tutorial on the
wiki (http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/User:Dtr5).
I am looking forward to hearing some feedback on this project.
Regards,
Daniel Torregrosa Rivero.
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