I would like to wish you a good luck to Aish and everyone involved in it. I tried to evaluate apertium for Nepali-Hindi pair and it was a painful job. I would like to say that its really good that Aish and others (Laxmiji, Bal Krishna ji) are involved in it. Eventually we would get a translator for ourselves.
I think I would not be involved deeply because It took a significant amount of my time while I researched in this last year. However I will be glad to look what is happening and may be I would like to be the first one to test the product. I have read success stories of apertium in other languages such as Spanish and English (which were closely related). If we could get an English-Nepali pair that would be a great thing. I think that a Hindi-Nepali pair would be another feasible option in case of failure of an English-Nepali pair. In that way we could benefit from some of the existing English-Hindi machine translation technologies. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Prabhas Pokharel <[email protected] > wrote: > Aish, > Good luck with the project, and I'd love to get updates if you get the > GSoC project and start working on it. (If you blog, etc., do send a quick > note back to the list... I'm sure others would be interested in open source > applications re: the Nepali language on the list!) > > Best of luck, and with interest, > --prabhas > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, ardahal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Respected member of the Nepali FOSS community, >> With Google having announced another instance of the popular Google >> Summer of Code program this year, students worldwide are ready to search >> for organizations and projects to work for. Although the organizations for >> this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) have not be decided yet, the >> Apertium MT project is a regular organization in the program. It is an open >> source Machine Translation system, available freely to develop. Although it >> has been available for many south Asian languages like Bengali for years >> now, the work on its Nepali system has not reached a significant level. >> As the project seeks support for several languages, and is open source, >> last year I under the mentorship of Bal Krishna Bal Sir of LTK developed a >> morphological analyzer for Nepali (as a part of the MT system.) . Just, as >> Apertium had selected the Bengali-English MT system to be its participant >> for the GSoC, this year, provided that we have a sound support from Nepali >> Linguistic experts, we may include the development of an Open Source >> Nepali-English Machine Translation System as a part of Google Summer of >> Code. Also, as far as I know, the system if developed shall be the first >> fully open source Nepali-English Machine Translation System and should be >> the firs ever project from Nepal to be accepted into the Google Summer of >> Code ( I am not sure, if there were any Nepali projects in GSoC before). >> As I happen to have developed the Nepali Morphological Analyzer( >> http://ltk.org.np/downloads/Report_internship_Apertium_MT_2011.pdf) I >> shall take the responsibility of being the student developer. However, the >> Apertium Project requires community backing from experts in Nepali, I need >> a sound support to make the entire system. >> Therefore, if you are reading this and are related to Nepali-English >> Machine Translation or NLP in Nepali, please provide me with guidance and >> support and possibly act as my mentor for the Google Summer of Code project >> for developing a Nepali-English Machine Translation System based on >> Apertium. >> Thanking you all >> Aish Raj Dahal >> NIT Warangal >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >> > > > > -- > Prabhas Pokharel > http://twitter.com/prabhasp > Nepal mobile: +977 98137 91044 > US mobile: +1 347 948 7654 > skype/facebook/whatever: prabhasp > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- Rajesh Pandey -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
