On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Laxmi Khatiwada <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Aish Raj Dahal <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Respected Sir, >> >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Laxmi Khatiwada <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> First of all thank you for your interest in machine translation. >>> >>> >> As I know from your report, you are trying to develop a morphological >>> analyzer to use in Apertium MT platform. OR >>> >>> Are you trying to develop a >>> 1. bidirectional MT system or >>> 2. Nep-Eng or >>> 3. Eng-Nep system >>> >>> is not clear. >>> >> The Morphological Analyzer forms a part of the several modules required >> by the proposed bidirectional Nepali-English Machine Translation System. >> The end goal of my proposed project shall be the development of a >> Nepali-English (bidirectional) Machine Translation System. >> > > To make Nepali-English-Nepali (bidirectional) Machine Translation System > is a hard job and time taking. You can't find tools and application to > analyze source language i.e. Nepali. Either you have to build standalone > application from morpheme to semantics i.e POS tag to Synset or > customize several modules of Appertium platform.you have to think about > timeline and your effort. Think with cool mind and make a decision. > Well precisely, I do have doubts that the project lacks feasibility to be completed in three months time. Moreover, while I consulted with Jacob in this matter, he suggested that Nepal-Hindi would be a better choice, as the languages are closely related. Furthermore, with one foot set in an already developed language pair(such as the proposed Nepali-Hindi pair) the development of a Nepali-English machine translation pair, will be heavily benefited in the future. Therefore, on grounds of feasibility, I am switching over th Nepali-Hindi pair. For this, I am evaluating and working on making the existing linguistic resources available for Hindi to be compatible with Apertium. I hope to lay the groundwork for this as soon as possible, Thank you for your valuable advice. Regards, Aishraj Since Nepali and English are not closely related languages, for which Apertium was originally made, it is indeed a hard work that I shall be amining for. > If you want to submit a proposal to GSC based on Appertium platform >>> write a draft proposal including related work previously done in Appertium. >>> After a discussion within engineer or NLPsts and linguists you can identify >>> the exact work plans. >>> >>> Surely sir, once the application period is declared open by Google and >> Apertium I shall post the draft of the proposed project. I need to wait for >> the time until the application period is declared open, as I was told about >> this in a recent email by Apertium community member Jimmy O' Regan. >> Meanwhile, instead of waiting ideally, I shall keep in touch with Jacob, >> Francis as well as you discussing on further improvements on the system. >> >>> Whatever the questions about mentrship I or we may ask to Francis as >>> well as Jakob as you are also known to Francis. >>> >>> Laxmi >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:53 PM, ardahal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Respected Laxmi Sir, >>>> I am student who has previously worked on Apertium on the model >>>> developed by Jacob and you. Last year, I worked under the mentorship of Bal >>>> Krishna Bal Sir of LTK to make improvements on the Apertium system, >>>> building a Nepali Morphological Analyzer.*( Report available here : >>>> http://ltk.org.np/downloads/Report_internship_Apertium_MT_2011.pdf) *This >>>> was however done away from Google Summer of Code. This year however, I >>>> would like to integrate this task as a part of Google Summer of Code for >>>> Apertium. >>>> As far as I know, last year too, as well as in 2009, the development of >>>> Bengali Machine Translation system based on Apertium was taken as project >>>> in Google Summer of Code for Apertium. >>>> However, in order to have an Nepali-English system, we need to get in >>>> touch with the Apertium team, which may ask for suitable mentors who are >>>> experts in Nepali Linguistics and MT field. >>>> As I am familiar with the framework of Apertium and have worked under >>>> the community of Apertium mentor Francis Tyres, with support from your >>>> side, I may get the chance to develop the Nepali-English MT system. >>>> Therefore, I would like to humbly request you if you would be able to >>>> co-ordinate with the Google Summer of Code tasks and possibly act as one of >>>> my mentors (in case the project is accepted by Aperituim). >>>> I look forward to working under your valuable guidance, and represent >>>> Nepal(probably for the first time) at the prestigious Google Summer of Code >>>> 2012. >>>> Yours Truly >>>> Aish Raj Dahal >>>> NIT Warangal >>>> India >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/ >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Aish Raj Dahal >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> > > -- > 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/ > -- Aishraj Dahal Bachelor's of Technology Computer Science and Engineering National Institute of Technology Warangal India -- 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/
