Hello,
I am writing to you because I am currently considering participation in
projects for Google Summer of Code and find your projects: *Apertium
assimilation evaluation toolkit*, *Improving support for non-standard text
input*
As a 2nd year student of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, I have
already encountered processing formal and natural languages (one of my
courses specifically focused on the topic) and found the topic very
interesting.
As far as programming is concerned, I have been programming for a couple of
years now, Java and Python are my primary programming languages. I feel
quite confident in both of them and believe, that should I need to learn to
work with new libraries, there should be no problem. Also as part of the
previously mentioned course I have worked with nltk. As far as XML is
concerned, I have had minor experiences with it: through the Data and
Analysis course I took and a bit of web scraping.
This would not be my first open source experience - as part of assignments
for the Software Engineering course at my university I had an opportunity
to work on an open source project and found the experience enriching.
Furthermore, I am fond of linguistics and took part in a Cognitive Science
course that also focused on natural languages. Being Slovak, I also
believe, that should you wish to work with my mother-tongue or the
languages of the Slavic neighbors of Slovakia that use Latin alphabets, I
should have little issues with such "language pairs".
Finally, I would like to ask if you believe I qualify for these projects
and, if so, could you give me some tips on how to write my application?
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
M. Falis
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