Hi,
My name is Denis and I'm a Computer Science student at the KUL in Belgium.
In
the last year I've been using DBpedia a lot (through SPARQL in Python)
as a data source for a semantic tweet enrichment system (almost the same
purposes as DBpedia Spotlight, but optimized for tweets). The tweet
annotator I've been working on is part of my master thesis. The general
structure of the tweet annotator is almost the same as Spotlight and it uses
the Spotlight Lexicalization dataset for candidate generation.
I'm very grateful to the
DBpedia project and would like to contribute to make it better. There
are several idea's I would love to implement and GSoC seems like the
perfect opportunity to do so, but I'm not sure if it is feasible in my
case for two reasons.
First, I'll be graduating this summer. For the
next year, I'm hoping to land a PhD position or to study further
(probably management plus some more CS stuff), but I'm not sure which
one yet. Am I eligible for GSoC 2013 in the case I choose not to stay in
the academic world next year?
Second, I found out DBpedia is in GSoC
just a few days ago. After reading in the mailing list, I got the
impression it takes a lot of effort to gain notability. With several
university deadlines approaching in the coming week, I'm not sure I will
have the time to make the same impression in the next five days until
the GSoC deadline. And there already are candidates for the most of the
idea's I found interesting.
So my question is, would you advise me to take a shot or does one of the two
things above form an unsurmountable obstacle?
Also, is it possible to make more than one DBpedia proposal or do we have to
chose one idea? (I'm new to GSoC...)
Kinds regards,
Denis
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