Thanks for this information. We have been considering a similar project for Inuktitut/English for quite some time. It's unique among Indigenous languages in Canada because of it's large speaker size, official status in 2 Canadian territories, dominant first language population in Nunavut and other regions, widespread writing/online use, massive digital multimedia archives, etc.
Mike West On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:51 AM Jonathan Washington < jonathan.n.washing...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > We're certainly open to collaborations, and would be happy to receive your > application for GSoC if we become a mentoring organisation this year. > > Many of the potential Apertium GSoC mentors generally prefer to devote > resources (including mentoring time and GSoC slots) to supporting > minoritised languages where a community benefits, but we are also fairly > open-minded. One of the criteria that we usually rank above others in > selecting participants in GSoC is if the candidate shows a good > understanding of the project and all its steps, which can be demonstrated > through a coding challenge or existing work on the project. > > Feel free to visit the Apertium IRC channel for more informal and > real-time conversations: > http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/IRC > > The Apertium IRC channel is a great place to interact with the community, > get help with setup or any number of formalisms, learn more about GSoC > applications, etc. > > -- > Jonathan > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 17:03 Daniel Swanson <awesomeevildu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Christian, >> >> One of the following pages is probably what you're looking for: >> https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Apertium_New_Language_Pair_HOWTO >> https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/How_to_bootstrap_a_new_pair >> >> Daniel >> >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 3:35 PM Christian Chiarcos via Apertium-stuff < >> apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >>> Dear list members, >>> >>> apologies for my ignorance, but where can I find an overview about the >>> minimal requirements to set up a new language pair for Apertium MT? I'm >>> considering to contribute to the development of translation system from >>> Sumerian to English to complement our NMT (and EBMT) baselines ( >>> https://github.com/cdli-gh), possibly in the context of the Apertium >>> ecosystem. >>> >>> Also, as we do have lexical resources and core components for morphology >>> and syntactic parsing for Sumerian in place, I was also wondering about >>> suggesting work on such a prototype as a topic for a GSoC project for 2021 >>> -- and if there is any interest from the Apertium community in this, >>> possibly as a collaborative effort (meaning joint mentorship) between the >>> Cuneiform DIgital Library Initiative and the Apertium community. >>> >>> Clearly, a disadvantage of any MT system involving Sumerian is that the >>> translation bridges languages that are not closely related by any means, >>> but nevertheless, the relative data sparsity (this is an ancient language >>> after all, even though well-documented) calls to explore directions of >>> symbolic translation as yet another option, at least. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Christian >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Apertium-stuff mailing list >>> Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Apertium-stuff mailing list >> Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >> > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >
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