Thanks, Hector, for the quick reply. I agree with your comments and acknowledge the difficulties. However, I believe that language technologies such as Apertium can significantly impact. Therefore, your suggestion of Developing a Morphological Analyser for Bodo is a prerequisite to making English-Bodo language pair possible in Apertium in the near future. I want to take this up if selected for the GSoC 2023 program.
I hope to contribute to Apertium beyond the GSoC. I have already installed apertium. I agree lexd is a best choice of parser for Bodo as it is an aggulative, and morphologically rich language. Also, I'm already on IRC (under the handle maharaj), and would like to know more about the coding challenge. With Regards, Maharaj Brahma Research Scholar Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering CS23RESCH01004 On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:29 PM Hèctor Alòs i Font <hectora...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Maharaj, > > Bodo seems to me to be an excellent language for Apertium. Unfortunately, > we have no morphological parser for it, even embryonic. That's why to > develop one seems to me much more realistic than to think of an automatic > translator project between Bodo and another language (and even more so, if > it belongs to another language family). > > It would therefore be a matter of doing this type of project: > https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Ideas_for_Google_Summer_of_Code#Develop_a_morphological_analyser > > > I've been looking a bit at the morphology of the language, and lexd [2] > seems the best choice for developing a parser (e.g. because of the > possessive prefixes). > > It would now be a matter of making the coding challenge of the project. > There are about ten days left before the deadline. That is not a lot of > time. > > I would suggest joining IRC to get faster help, if needrf: > https://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/IRC > > Best regards, > Hèctor > > [1] https://github.com/apertium/lexd > > Missatge de Maharaj Brahma via Apertium-stuff < > apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net> del dia dv., 24 de març 2023 a les > 15:54: > >> Dear Apertium folks, >> >> I'm writing to express my interest in participating in the GSoC with >> Apertium. I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in the NLP domain. I'm excited to >> work with the Apertium community on developing translation technology for >> low-resource languages, particularly Bodo. Bodo is a low-resource language >> primarily spoken in the Northeastern region of India. As an NLP researcher >> and native speaker of Bodo, I'm committed to building technology to >> preserve and promote indigenous languages like Bodo. >> >> I'm interested in adding a new language English-Bodo to the Apertium >> platform through this GSoC program or otherwise. I believe this can >> potentially impact the translation technology for low resources. >> Additionally, due to the following points: >> (i) There is no existing publicly available translation technology for >> English-Bodo. >> (ii) Bodo is a low-resource language (potentially ample contribution >> space remains). >> (iii) Belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, unlike other Indian >> languages like Hindi and Assamese. >> >> I would like to know if this is a potential project. If so, I would like >> to interact with potential mentors. >> >> Any comments on the English-Bodo language pair are most welcome. >> >> With Regards, >> Maharaj Brahma >> Research Scholar >> Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering >> CS23RESCH01004 >> >> Disclaimer:- This footer text is to convey that this email is sent by >> one of the users of IITH. So, do not mark it as SPAM. >> _______________________________________________ >> Apertium-stuff mailing list >> Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >> > -- Disclaimer:- This footer text is to convey that this email is sent by one of the users of IITH. So, do not mark it as SPAM.
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