cool! it'd be good if we could plan for remote participation via Google Hangouts and the likes, that way I maybe could join too (if timezone difference is gentle enough).
Regards, Tommaso Il giorno gio 24 mar 2016 alle ore 03:39 Lewis John Mcgibbney < [email protected]> ha scritto: > Cool. > We should maybe take 30 or so minutes to go through set up, installation > and a simple pipeline run. That would be good to add the agenda. > I've done just that > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/JOSHUA/Joshua+Meetups#JoshuaMeetups-ApacheCon2016 > Lewis > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Henri Yandell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Aiming to be in Vancouver for much of the week. Will definitely be coming > > to the session to learn about Joshua. > > > > My interests in Joshua are support based - how can I support y'all better > > as a mentor, and how can I support those at my dayjob using Joshua get > > involved. Learning a bit more about how it works will be a plus :) > > > > Hen > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This sounds cool folks. > > > I'll be there for the entire conference ... I hope. > > > I think we should jump on Matt's suggestion to meetup on Thursday. Time > > > TBC. > > > @Matt, can you put a wiki page together and we can get an agenda > > together? > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/JOSHUA/Joshua+%28Incubating%29+Home > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:04 AM, kellen sunderland < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > My use case for Joshua involves creating internal scalable web > services > > > to > > > > translate text across several language arcs. Most of the code > changes > > I > > > > (and others on my team) aim to contribute focus on Joshua stability > and > > > > performance. So far my work has been mostly around speeding up > > decoding > > > > and training speed (I hope to have some significant patches incoming > > > around > > > > the time of the Con). > > > > > > > > I'll go ahead and book flights to Vancouver as well. Hope to see > most > > of > > > > you there. > > > > > > > > -Kellen > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm going to look into making a short trip. I think I'd arrive on the > > > > 11th and then leave on > > > > Friday the 13th. Could we plan a meet up for the night of Thursday > the > > > > 12th? It'd be great > > > > to meet everyone (and having a deadline would help me prioritize :) ) > > > > > > > > matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 15, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > > > > [email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Matt, > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Matt Post <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Whoa! Lewis, can you give some more detail on this talk, what you > > > > >> proposed, and what you plan to talk about? > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > http://sched.co/6OJI > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > >> I haven't ever been to ApacheCon, but am interested in going. I > > don't > > > > have > > > > >> much of a feel for what motivates folks outside the academic > > research > > > > >> community, and that would be good to have in laying out projects > > that > > > > might > > > > >> interest people. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > I agree. Would be great to meet you there. We could have a Joshua > > > meetup. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > >> Regarding those project, I have a number of them. Perhaps it would > > be > > > > >> useful to flesh them out with some more detail, and perhaps post > > them, > > > > for > > > > >> those who are interested. First, with respect to Tommaso's > question, > > > the > > > > >> following: > > > > >> > > > > >> - Use cases. I'd really like to push machine translation as a > black > > > box, > > > > >> where people can download and use models, not caring how they > work, > > > and > > > > >> building on top of them. I think this could be transformative. > I've > > > just > > > > >> added to Joshua the ability to add, store, and manage custom > phrasal > > > > >> translation rules, which would let people take a model and add > their > > > own > > > > >> translations on top of it, perhaps correcting mistakes as they > > > encounter > > > > >> them. There's a JSON API for it (undocumented). > > > > >> > > > > >> Building this up would also require pulling together lots of > > different > > > > >> test sets, evaluating changes, and so on. > > > > >> > > > > >> - Neural nets. This is a huge research area. I think the > advantages > > > are > > > > >> that it could enable releasing models that are much smaller. > > However, > > > on > > > > >> the down side, it's not clear what the best way to integrate these > > > > models > > > > >> into Joshua is. Fully neural attention models would require > > > > re-architecting > > > > >> Joshua, as they are essentially a new paradigm. Adding neural > > > > components as > > > > >> feature functions that interact with the existing decoding > algorithm > > > > would > > > > >> be an intermediate step. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > OK. This sounds like bang on for a meet up topic. Regardless of who > > is > > > > > there, we could have a Webex or something similar for the > incubating > > > > > community, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > >> For other projects, I'd love: > > > > >> > > > > >> - Better documentation, developer and end-user (probably I need to > > > > write a > > > > >> lot of this; if nothing else, it would be hugely useful to me in > > terms > > > > of > > > > >> prioritizing to know that people want it) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> - Rewriting certain components. The tuning modules, in particular, > > > are a > > > > >> real mess, and should be synthesized and improved. > > > > >> > > > > >> - Replacing Moses components. Joshua can call out to Moses to > build > > > > phrase > > > > >> tables; it would be nice to get rid of this (and wouldn't be that > > > hard) > > > > >> with our own Java implementations. It would also be good to add a > > > > >> lexicalized distortion model to the phrase-based decoder. > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > These all sound excellent and would all make very reasonable GSoC > > > > projects, > > > > > Thanks > > > > > Lewis > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Lewis* > > > > > > > > > -- > *Lewis* >
