El dc 19 de 03 de 2014 a les 15:27 +0000, en/na Matúš Falis va escriure: > 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? >
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