Re: [Apertium-stuff] GSOC 16

2016-03-07 Thread Mikel Forcada
Saurabh: Check our ideas page and you will see that the project has a coding challenge associated. You should work on that coding challenge before submitting a project. Please come to our IRC channel with any questions you might have. cheers, Mikel On 7 March 2016 14:03:41 CET, saurabh agrahari

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Fwd: WikimediaAnnounce-l Digest, Vol 69, Issue 2

2015-12-06 Thread Mikel Forcada
Awesome, Kevin! Mikel On 5 December 2015 07:11:17 CET, Kartik Mistry wrote: >Congrats to Kevin! > > >-- Forwarded message -- >Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 16:58:02 -0800 >From: Marti Johnson >To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Google Code-in: How you can help

2015-11-14 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi Juhi, is there any task that you would like to add? Is there an existing task you would like to co-mentor? Do you have access to our Wiki? If not, ask us. We would also need your Google handle (just write to any of the admins mentioned by Fran). Mikel EL Sat, 14 Nov 2015 14:56:44 +0530 JUHI

[Apertium-stuff] Fwd: Apertium has been accepted as a Google Code-in 2015 mentoring organization!

2015-11-13 Thread Mikel Forcada
Original Message From: "Mikel L. Forcada" Sent: 13 November 2015 22:52:25 CET To: "Mikel L. Forcada" Subject: Fwd: Apertium has been accepted as a Google Code-in 2015 mentoring organization! -- Forwarded message --

[Apertium-stuff] [urgent] Google Code-ln 2015

2015-11-02 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Apertiumers: Tomorrow, November 3, is the deadline for us to apply to be a Google Code-In 2015 [1] organization, as we have been for the past few years. We should be part of it. But your help is needed for a successful application tomorrow.  Here is what we expect you to do: (1) If you

Re: [Apertium-stuff] [POSSIBLESPAM]: Apertium LTTOOLBOX being used in teaching CL

2015-10-25 Thread Mikel Forcada
Wow! Nice! On 25 October 2015 11:53:27 CET, Raveesh Motlani wrote: >Hey, >The attached pic is a clip from a question paper of a freshman course >of >Computational Linguistics at IIIT-H. :D >So apparently, Apertium lttoolbox is being used in education now :D >

Re: [Apertium-stuff] nno-nob 1.0.1 released

2015-09-27 Thread Mikel Forcada
EL Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:31:21 +0200 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer escrigué: > Hi all, > > I just uploaded new releases of the Nynorsk-Bokmål translator and its > monolingual dependencies. > > The pair now depends on apertium-lex-tools, and has some minor lexical > selection rules,

[Apertium-stuff] EAMT 2016 Riga: 30 May – 1 June.

2015-09-09 Thread Mikel Forcada
EAMT 2016 Riga: 30 May – 1 June. The EAMT Executive Committee is pleased to announced that the EAMT 2016, the annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation will be held in Riga, Latvia, on May 30–June 1. The conference will be hosted by our friends at Tilde, a language

Re: [Apertium-stuff] New language pairs enabled on ContentTranslation!

2015-09-08 Thread Mikel Forcada
Cool! On 8 September 2015 11:04:53 CEST, Francis Tyers wrote: >Just in from Amir: > > thank you, apertium people * >https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/apertium-machine-translation-for-seven-new-language-pairs-enabled-in-contenttranslation/ > >Great news! :) > >Fran >

Re: [Apertium-stuff] login for commit failed

2015-08-22 Thread Mikel Forcada
Wolfgang, I have checked your permissions and you have developer permissions like some other people who have committed today. I wonder what's wrong. I'll come online for a little while in the Apertium chat (channel #apertium, you can use http://webchat.freenode.net) to see if we can figure this

Re: [Apertium-stuff] apertium-en-de different tags for the same verb tense

2015-08-18 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for your interesting in apertium-eng-deu. Some languages have these differences in tags, and they are dealt with by means of structural transfer rules, as the usage of English pres, and German pri may vary. But the change seems reasonable. I think we should wait a bit for an

Re: [Apertium-stuff] moved apertium-fin* to github (was: Re: SF SVN up, but missing data)

2015-07-29 Thread Mikel Forcada
Running our own repository would mean losing some other advantages from SF Anyway, such a decision should be run through the project management committee, after a formal proposal. Mikel On 28 July 2015 22:26:01 CEST, Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com wrote: A 2015-07-28 22:15, Flammie

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Application for Internship?

2015-06-27 Thread Mikel Forcada
EL Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:38:30 + Wei En Ng wei2912.supp...@gmail.com escrigué: Hi, I've helped out at Apertium during GCI 2013 and 2014. My school has a boarding programme during November and requires students to pick up an internship of their choice during this period. Is there a way for

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Apertium-viewer / editor version 2.4 - with transfer rules debugging

2015-05-18 Thread Mikel Forcada
EL Mon, 18 May 2015 20:26:14 +0200 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer unham...@fsfe.org escrigué: Jacob Nordfalk jacob.nordf...@gmail.com writes: It's really cool,click on the link and the files opens at the rule :-) It *is* really cool =D Really cool! Thanks a million for that! Does it use

[Apertium-stuff] Attack on the Crimean Tatar language community

2015-04-02 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Apertiumers, This message is a personal (not presidential) message. I am sure you know that the Russian authorities now in control of Crimea have forced the closure of ATR the only Crimean Tatar TV station there, through bureaucratic impediments and delays [1]. Crimean Tatar (crh) is a

[Apertium-stuff] Strange suggestion

2015-03-29 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi Folks, I just opened the apertium.org site using chromium-browser and I just got a suggestion: This website would like to remind you: Your browser (Chrome 39) is out of date. Update your browser for more security, comfort and the best experience on this site. First, I am not using Chrome 39

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Strange suggestion

2015-03-29 Thread Mikel Forcada
EL Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:24:02 +0200 Tino Didriksen m...@tinodidriksen.com escrigué: It's a service from http://browser-update.org/ - which is a FOSS project. Well, in my opinion, it's plain wrong of them to do that. Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/ +34 96

[Apertium-stuff] Fw: Please Sign and Circulate: Open Letter to the EC

2015-03-22 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Apertiumers, please consider supporting this open letter to the European Commission. It's current wording is not my favourite, as it talks only about some of the languages in Europe, and it is therefore a bit out of focus, but it is a start, and I have signed it. Best regards Mikel

[Apertium-stuff] Fw: [Mt-list] Fwd: TweetMT @ SEPLN 2015

2015-03-19 Thread Mikel Forcada
Inici del missatge reenviat: Data: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:55:09 +0100 Desde: Cristina cristi...@lsi.upc.edu A: mt-list mt-l...@eamt.org Assumpte: [Mt-list] Fwd: TweetMT @ SEPLN 2015 Apologies for multiple postings *TweetMT

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Language pairs in the wiki

2015-03-17 Thread Mikel Forcada
EL Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:59:13 +0100 Bernard Chardonneau bechapert...@free.fr escrigué: hbs_HR Croatian as an instantiation of macrolanguage HBS (Hrvatsko-Bosansko-Srpski) hbs_SR Serbian as an instantiation of macrolanguage HBS -- Mikel L. Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/

[Apertium-stuff] Turklang 2015

2015-03-14 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Colleagues, We are happy to inform you that the 3rd International Conference on Computer Processing of Turkic Languages “TurkLang 2015” will be held in Kazan (Tatarstan, Russian Federation) on September 17-19, 2015. Directions of Conference Work: • Formal Models for Turkic Languages •

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Google Summer of Code 2015: Application not accepted

2015-03-02 Thread Mikel Forcada
EL Mon, 2 Mar 2015 20:56:38 + Flammie Pirinen flam...@iki.fi escrigué: Past years there's been an IRC session for failed orgs you can go and have couple of minutes to ask questions but I don't see that on the web site now. There is. Friday 6th, 1600 CET. Fran will attend. But we also

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Google Summer of Code 2015: Application not accepted

2015-03-02 Thread Mikel Forcada
EL Mon, 2 Mar 2015 21:02:26 +0100 Xavi Ivars x...@infobenissa.com escrigué: Fran, is there any information Apertium can get as a project about why it wasn't accepted? We just asked for it. Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/ +34 96 590 9776 Departament de

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Doubt about handling inflections

2015-03-01 Thread Mikel Forcada
. On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Mikel Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es wrote: Hi Nurendra, clearly, your form बागnfsgloc starts with बागnf and not with बागेतnf as your dictionary entry expects. Therefore, the dictionary entry you show does not match it. Hope this helps Mikel

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Doubt about handling inflections

2015-02-27 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi Nurendra, clearly, your form बागnfsgloc starts with बागnf and not with बागेतnf as your dictionary entry expects. Therefore, the dictionary entry you show does not match it. Hope this helps Mikel EL Sat, 28 Feb 2015 06:15:53 +0530 Nurendra Choudhary nurendrachoudhar...@gmail.com

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Error while using mar-hin bilingual transfer rules

2015-02-25 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi Nurendra: I am checking rev 59135, and it does generate the .t2x.bin and .t3x.bin files from the .t2x and the .t3x files. And the command echo आखणी | apertium -d . mar-hin does work (but the word appears unknown because I cannot paste it properly, apparently). Was the problem solved? Mikel

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Offline Desktop Gui for Apertium

2015-02-20 Thread Mikel Forcada
EL Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:19:45 +0530 siddharth singh siddharth7.si...@gmail.com escrigué: I need some help to setup environment on Ubuntu. Hi Siddharth: have you tried following the instructions in our Wiki? Where is it that you actually find the first problem? Cheers Mikel -- Mikel L.

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Contributing to Apertium for GSOC 2015

2015-02-07 Thread Mikel Forcada
questions! Cheers Mikel Forcada -- Mikel L. Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/ +34 96 590 9776 Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant E-03071 Alacant (Spain) -- Dive

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Contributing to Marathi-Telugu pair

2015-02-06 Thread Mikel Forcada
Aditi: you can add new tags but you have to provide a linguistic reasoning for them. It would be nice to discuss here what are the tags you need and why you need them. Apertium is packed with linguists that can lend some guidance here, at least by asking interesting questions about the languages

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Factorise a corpus using Apertium

2015-01-28 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi, Konstantinos. I am not sure what you mean by factorize. Also, what do you mean by missing symbols? An example would help us help you! Mikel Forcada EL Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:53:58 +0200 CHATZITHEODOROU Konstantinos dinosa...@gmail.com escrigué: hi, I have used Apertium's resources

[Apertium-stuff] Kazakh in Google Translate

2014-12-13 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear all: For your information, Google Translate has added Kazakh to its language list. All the best, Mikel -- S'ha enviat des del meu telèfon Android amb K-9 Mail. Si us plau, excusa la meva brevetat.-- Download BIRT

[Apertium-stuff] Fwd: Call for Papers: Translation and Openness

2014-11-06 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear all, Apertium should probably be represented in this workshop. Anyone volunteering to say something there? Mikel -- Missatge reenviat -- De: Peter Sandrini peter.sandr...@uibk.ac.at Assumpte: Call for Papers: Translation and Openness Data: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:17:06 +0100

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Spanish--Portuguese in Wikipedia Content Translation

2014-11-03 Thread Mikel Forcada
Thanks a million, Alolita, Shantosh et al. I hope you understand my early disappointment. It was a rather long post, what made the omission hard to take for me. I apologize for the last sentence - I was upset. Best Mikel On 4 de novembre de 2014 7:31:36 CET, Alolita Sharma

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Reg : PMC and President results

2014-10-30 Thread Mikel Forcada
Thanks a million Akshay Xavi for running the process in the face of so many difficulties. Is there any reason to withhold the number of votes received? In previous elections, IIRC, we had this information available. Let me thank everyone for the support received. I hope I can be of service to

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Apertium VirtualBox updated to Xubuntu 14.10

2014-10-29 Thread Mikel Forcada
Thanks a million Tino! On Tue, 28 de Oct 2014 a les 7:59 PM, Tino Didriksen tino.didrik...@gmail.com wrote: I've updated the VDI of http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Apertium_VirtualBox to latest Xubuntu 14.10 and updated all packages. It now uses the Nighly apt repo (

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Access for committing

2014-10-29 Thread Mikel Forcada
Aida, could we get full names in addition to the usernames? Also, please send it to apertium-...@dlsi.ua.es instead. Thanks a lot Mikel On Wed, 29 de Oct 2014 a les 8:07 PM, Aida Sundetova sun27a...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Could you please give access for committing to new students from my

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Google Code In 2014

2014-10-26 Thread Mikel Forcada
Thanks a million, Pim! You forgot to mention that a paper describing the language pair made it to the EAMT 2011 conference, which I co-chaired, and you were the youngest presenter we have ever had at this international conference. And now, a request. If we cooked up GCI tasks to test and

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GCI task ideas: Lexicalised unigram tagger

2014-10-26 Thread Mikel Forcada
This sounds *very* interesting. I am on mobile now. Will give more detailed feedback in a longer message later tonight. Mikel On 26 d’octubre de 2014 16:07:25 CET, Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com wrote: Hey all, I had this idea and would be interested in getting feedback. I think it could

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GCI task ideas: Lexicalised unigram tagger

2014-10-26 Thread Mikel Forcada
Fran, folks, here's the feedback I promised. As I said, this is a great idea, particuarly to round off the work by a constraint grammar, and I think the breakdown in GCI tasks could work, perhaps excepting the integration in the current tagger. In a trained corpus we could collect counts in

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GCI task ideas: Lexicalised unigram tagger

2014-10-26 Thread Mikel Forcada
(i.e., a certain number of times). This would make the list shorter Mikel On Sun, 26 de Oct 2014 a les 7:00 PM, Mikel Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es wrote: Fran, folks, here's the feedback I promised. As I said, this is a great idea, particuarly to round off the work by a constraint grammar, and I

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GCI task ideas: Lexicalised unigram tagger

2014-10-26 Thread Mikel Forcada
Fran, [snip] Hmm, I'm not sure if this is the case... e.g. what would happen if you have, e.g. ^wound/woundnsg/windvblexpast/woundvblexpres/woundvblexinf$ From your corpus (or fractional counts or something) woundwoundnsg 100 woundwindvblexpast 20 woundwoundvblexpres

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Contribute to apertium in gsoc 2015

2014-10-07 Thread Mikel Forcada
studying how Apertium work, and then fiddling a bit with it to see how you can change things. I hope this helped. Welcome Mikel Forcada On Tue, 7 de Oct 2014 a les 3:43 PM, Nurendra Choudhary nurendrachoudhar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am studying Computational Linguistics and IIIT Hyderabad

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] Google Code-in 2014 org applications open Oct 27th

2014-10-07 Thread Mikel Forcada
Fran, I am. I would not take such an active role as last year, but I will gladly participate and I think we should definitely do it. Many tasks are still free, and we can easily come up with more tasks. I would encourage everyone in the Apertium community to participate. This spreads

[Apertium-stuff] 2014 PMC Election: CENSUS

2014-09-10 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Apertiumers: a month ago I resigned as Apertium president, and, as a result, a new election process has started. We will elect a new project management committee (PMC) and a new president. Elections are regulated by our current by-laws [1]. The calendar is also available [2]. An

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Election board

2014-09-07 Thread Mikel Forcada
to run the election. Thanks again Mikel Forcada interim president 2014-09-04 12:37 GMT+02:00 Mikel L. Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es: Dear Apertium-stuff: to start the new election process we need a group of 3 people who will be our election board. Their first task will be to prepare a census. Instead

[Apertium-stuff] apertium and lt-toolbox together?

2014-09-06 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear all, I have a question that was posed by my student John E. Ortega (CC-ed). Could someone enlight me about the reasons why we need to have separate installations for lttoolbox and apertium, which in addition go each one in a different directory? Currently, Installing means making two

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Apertium-stuff Digest, Vol 88, Issue 20

2014-08-29 Thread Mikel Forcada
I agree. Apertium is a project organized around people. Many of us work for institutions but are visible in Apertium as individuals. Our by-laws confirm this view too. Mikel On Thu, 28 de Aug 2014 a les 10:50 AM, Tino Didriksen tino.didrik...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 August 2014 10:35, KMIT

[Apertium-stuff] Apertium wiki membership request. Was: Re: Apertium-stuff Digest, Vol 88, Issue 21

2014-08-29 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Kalyani, I assume you have been following our discussion with another colleague in your institution. Our members are individuals. All the best, Mikel On Thu, 28 de Aug 2014 a les 7:16 AM, kmit k 208k...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mikel, Thank you for asking to provide

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Apertium-stuff Digest, Vol 88, Issue 20

2014-08-27 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Admin, Can you please create an account for me to access wiki. Well Mikel Forcada answered you. We know now creating an account on Apertium wiki is less simple than on Wikipedia and a lot of other wikis. But one year ago and more, there was more than 10 new accounts

[Apertium-stuff] 2014 EAMT Best Thesis Award

2014-07-23 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Apertiumers: the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) has published the call for candidacies to the 2014 EAMT Best Thesis Award. For details, please visit the following URL: http://www.eamt.org/news/news_best_thesis2014.php Best regards, Mikel L. Forcada EAMT Secretary

[Apertium-stuff] 2014 EAMT call for proposals and internships

2014-07-23 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear list members: the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) has published the 2014 call for proposals and the 2015 call for student internships. For details, please visit the following URLs: http://www.eamt.org/news/news_call_for_proposals2014.php

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Apertium in the WikiMedia content translation tool

2014-07-17 Thread Mikel Forcada
Great stuff. The way they treat links is particularly amazing. Mikel Al 07/17/2014 02:55 PM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: A 2014-07-17 14:48, Jim O'Regan escrigué: On 17 July 2014 11:20, Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com wrote: It isn't mentioned clearly anywhere yet... I had to go looking,

[Apertium-stuff] Fwd: Apertium EN-ES y EN-CA en RDF

2014-07-14 Thread Mikel Forcada
original Assumpte: Apertium EN-ES y EN-CA en RDF Data: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:53:13 +0200 De: Jorge Gracia jgra...@fi.upm.es A: Mikel Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es CC: Marta Villegas marta.ville...@gmail.com Estimado Mikel, Te escribo para comunicarte que en el Ontology

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Fwd: Apertium EN-ES y EN-CA en RDF

2014-07-14 Thread Mikel Forcada
Jorge, could you please take Jim's suggestions below into account? Thanks a lot Jim! Mikel Al 07/14/2014 06:43 PM, En/na Jim O'Regan ha escrit: 2014-07-14 16:55 GMT+01:00 Mikel Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es mailto:m...@dlsi.ua.es: Hi there, a quick line to let you know that a group

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Fwd: [Corpora-List] Postdoctoral position in Machine Learning and Machine translation

2014-06-20 Thread Mikel Forcada
WTF.?!! Al 06/19/2014 10:45 PM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: Missatge Original Assumpte: [Corpora-List] Postdoctoral position in Machine Learning and Machine translation Data: 2014-06-19 18:55 Remitent: Serge Sharoff s.shar...@leeds.ac.uk Destinatari: corp...@uib.no

Re: [Apertium-stuff] tagging error in en-ca

2014-04-17 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 04/17/2014 03:19 PM, En/na Mireia Ginestí Rosell ha escrit: Because, if I remember well, there is not the option to tell: forbid this ONLY if there is an ambiguty, right? Only in constraint grammar, not in our .tsx files as far as I know. Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada

Re: [Apertium-stuff] tagging error in en-ca

2014-04-16 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 04/16/2014 06:24 PM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: Do you think we could make a rule to do not choose the adverb when you have inpr/inadv followed by a location ? I'm surprised the tagger does that. Are you thinking about a constraint? Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada

Re: [Apertium-stuff] tagging error in en-ca

2014-04-16 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 04/16/2014 07:43 PM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: forbid rule perhaps Forbid sounds good to me ;-) Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/) Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant E-03071 Alacant, Spain Phone: +34 96 590 9776 Fax: +34 96 590

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Capitalizing the first letter of every sentence

2014-04-12 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 04/12/2014 04:07 PM, En/na Rafi Kamal ha escrit: chunk name=pronoun case=caseFirstWord This just transfers the case of the first word, but does not capitalize it. You may want to use modify-case: see p. 96 of the official documentation, which you can find here:

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Capitalizing the first letter of every sentence

2014-04-12 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 04/12/2014 05:09 PM, En/na Rafi Kamal ha escrit: But how can I instruct apertium to run this script? I can modify the modes file, but these files will be regenerated every time after executing the makefile. If you cannot solve this at structural transfer level, you can always add your

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Capitalizing the first letter of every sentence

2014-04-12 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 04/12/2014 07:25 PM, En/na Rafi Kamal ha escrit: Another question, in the script, I need to split the corpus into sentences. Is there any tool in apertium which does this task (like NLTK tokenizer for Python)? I can simply split the corpus on . or ? or !. But in that case, sentences where

Re: [Apertium-stuff] [GSoC] Adopt an unreleased language pair (Bangla-English)

2014-04-10 Thread Mikel Forcada
Unfortunately not, AFAIK. You can build strings conditionally outside the out or lu and then output them, The argument of out is a string... choose applies to sequences of statements. Mikel Al 04/11/2014 07:03 AM, En/na Rafi Kamal ha escrit: Hi, is it possible to use choose inside an out or

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Proposal for Google Summer Of Code 2014

2014-03-21 Thread Mikel Forcada
Divya, you have to submit it through Google Melange! Cheers Mikel Al 03/21/2014 06:33 PM, En/na Divya Upadhyay ha escrit: *Name:* Divya Upadhyay *E-mail address:* divyaupadhya...@gmail.com mailto:divyaupadhya...@gmail.com *Other information that may be useful to contact you: * *E-mail

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Proposal for Fuzzy-match repair from Translation Memory

2014-03-21 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 03/21/2014 06:46 PM, En/na Pankaj Kumar Sharma ha escrit: Any feedback anyone ? Dozens of proposals and many coming in right now before the deadline and a handful of mentors struggling to deal with them. Please understand if they cannot make it... Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Help on gsoc

2014-03-19 Thread Mikel Forcada
Muhammad, use any language and an IDE-free build procedure. I would say that using ant or maven and build.xml would also be acceptable. Mikel Al 03/19/2014 09:09 AM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: El dc 19 de 03 de 2014 a les 13:03 +0500, en/na Muhammad Mohsin Khan Niazi va escriure: Hi I

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GSOC Proposal

2014-03-19 Thread Mikel Forcada
Please let us know when your coding challenge is ready, Sachin. Mikel Al 03/19/2014 12:31 PM, En/na Sachin Shastri ha escrit: Here is a copy of my GSOC proposal. I would love to get some feedback on some changes I can make. Name: Sachin Shastri E-mail address:sachinsu...@gmail.com

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GSoC 14, 'Apertium assimilation evaluation toolkit' Project

2014-03-15 Thread Mikel Forcada
Thanks a million Binay! First, you can call me just Mikel. This is a very nice piece of software. It works, and I think the idea would to go on (Fran and Jim may give suggestions) and 1. turn it into a GUI (I would go for something like a web-based GUI) 2. make it possible for the user to

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GSoC 14, 'Apertium assimilation evaluation toolkit' Project

2014-03-14 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi Binay, that's terrific. You know what would make it easier to test? Putting everything in a single .zip file! Or somewhere I can download all in one go, instead of going file by file. Could you do that for us? Also, I don't think it makes much sense to have a project in SourceForge with

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Coding challenge for the android project

2014-03-13 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 03/13/2014 07:03 AM, En/na Vandan Phadke ha escrit: If the project is based on Android (Java) That depends on the program for which you want to write the plugin. Are you considering writing one for Telegram? Think about the fact that mentors have to test it. Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Assimilation evaluation task for GSoC

2014-03-13 Thread Mikel Forcada
Ekaterina, Both Francis Tyers and I are available for discussion. It may also help to read this paper: http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/download/4867/2882 (the evaluation section). Cheers Mikel Al 03/13/2014 05:32 PM, En/na Ekaterina Ageeva ha escrit:

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Coding challenge for the android project

2014-03-13 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 03/13/2014 07:03 PM, En/na Vandan Phadke ha escrit: Could you please give me some links which can provide me directions to start making plugins as said in the coding challenge ?? This is part of the challenge, Vandan ;-) Our developers should be able to find their way... You haven't

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Apertium assimilation evaluation toolkit programming task

2014-03-11 Thread Mikel Forcada
Aniruddha, Hello, I am trying for the Apertium assimilation evaluation toolkit. Cool! In the coding task what exactly needs to be done? What I understood form the task is to get a translator No. Assimilation is for anyone who understands the target language, be they translators or not. and

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Student enquiry for project details

2014-03-10 Thread Mikel Forcada
Harsimran, (1) It is a good idea to subscribe to the mailing list apertium-stuff (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff). (2) The project you mention has a coding challenge. I will be glad to answer questions about the challenge to start. You cannot send a proposal for

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Student enquiry for project details

2014-03-10 Thread Mikel Forcada
Sorry, I didn't realize you were actually writing to the list :-( Mikel Al 03/10/2014 10:36 PM, En/na Mikel Forcada ha escrit: Harsimran, (1) It is a good idea to subscribe to the mailing list apertium-stuff (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff). (2) The project you

Re: [Apertium-stuff] [GSOC] Unify the metadix formats Queries (Mikel Forcada)

2014-03-08 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 03/08/2014 09:24 PM, En/na Gaurav Agrawal ha escrit: Take the apertium-es-ca.es.dix from apertium-es-ca Write a XSLT sheet that transforms as many entries e as possible in the standard section of the dictionary as follows: Presently, I am working with apertium-en-ca package. So, Which

Re: [Apertium-stuff] [GSOC] Unify the metadix formats Queries

2014-03-01 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 03/01/2014 11:37 AM, En/na Gaurav Agrawal ha escrit: As you are mentoring this project, Can you please help me in this regard ? Hi Gaurav: have you read about metadix? Have you understood how metadix dictionaries are converted to the .dix format used by Apertium compilers? Have you checked

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Reg : Proposal for New Language Pair ( English-HIndi)

2014-02-28 Thread Mikel Forcada
Karan, Parallel data such as the resources you mention are of little use for Apertium, a rule-based system. Is the transfer grammar mentioned free/open-source? Could it be turned into Apertium rules? Come back when you have a clearer idea! Cheers Mikel Al 02/28/2014 05:42 PM, En/na

Re: [Apertium-stuff] The GSoC Coding Challenge and My other new work with Urdu-Hindi pair

2014-02-23 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 02/23/2014 04:58 PM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: Dear PMC: Could we please give this student commit access so he can improve the Urdu-Hindi pair ? +1 -- Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/) Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant E-03071 Alacant,

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GSOC idea: improve support for non-standard input

2014-02-12 Thread Mikel Forcada
Tweet translation could be a task in itself. Mikel Al 02/12/2014 05:26 PM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: I came up with another idea for GSOC, what do people think ? Description: Machine translation systems, especially rule-based systems, are pretty fragile when it comes to non-standard

[Apertium-stuff] Deadline extension: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on “Free/open-source language resources for the machine translation of less-resourced languages” at LREC 2014

2014-02-10 Thread Mikel Forcada
* NEW DEADLINE: February 17 * Call for Papers: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on “Free/open-source language resources for the machine translation of less-resourced languages” at LREC 2014 A full-day workshop at LREC 2014 Tuesday, 27 May 2014. Reykjavik (Iceland) SALTMIL:

Re: [Apertium-stuff] czech to hanakian language pair

2014-02-10 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 02/11/2014 12:55 AM, En/na Xavi Ivars ha escrit: If it has, IMHO a good name for the pair could be apertium-ces-ces_hanakian: it would follow standard naming conventions while making explicit what it translates from/to. +1 -- Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/) Departament de

Re: [Apertium-stuff] czech to hanakian language pair

2014-02-09 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Fanos, I find something strange in the naming of this pair. I know this has been discussed with Francis Tyers, but could you please remind us of the rationale for having a pair that is described as translating from a language to the same language? Mikel Al 02/09/2014 03:17 PM, En/na

Re: [Apertium-stuff] czech to hanakian language pair

2014-02-09 Thread Mikel Forcada
for: cat_val-cat cat-cat_val This is how the Hanakian translator has been set up. At least until Hanakian is assigned an ISO code. Fran El dg 09 de 02 de 2014 a les 20:04 +0100, en/na Mikel Forcada va escriure: Dear Fanos, I find something strange in the naming of this pair. I know this has been

[Apertium-stuff] Apertium, Telegram, and the GSoC

2014-02-09 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear all, I don't have the necessary technical knowledge but I was wondering if it would be possible to have a GSoC student write something like an Apertium plugin or extension for the Telegram messenger (a partially free/open-source alternative to Whatsapp which is on the rise). Would this

[Apertium-stuff] Apertium, Telegram, and the GSoC

2014-02-09 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear all, I don't have the necessary technical knowledge but I was wondering if it would be possible to have a GSoC student write something like an Apertium plugin or extension for the Telegram messenger (a partially free/open-source alternative to Whatsapp which is on the rise). Would this

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Translation doesn't seem to work when using Javascript API.

2014-02-06 Thread Mikel Forcada
Aayush, the webservice is down due to a problem with the server and is expected to be down for some time. The system crashed, the OS was updated, and now there is a problem with the software running the webservice. The people responsible are listening to this list, and they may provide you

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Apertium webservices down

2014-02-06 Thread Mikel Forcada
Mikel, see my recent message to a similar question. Cheers Mikel Al 02/06/2014 11:53 PM, En/na Mikel Artetxe ha escrit: Is this supposed to be fixed? I've noticed that api.apertium.org http://api.apertium.org has been up for some days, but I have not been able to register (I get this

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Call for bids: Apertium maintenance

2014-02-05 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 02/05/2014 12:34 PM, En/na Tino Didriksen ha escrit: I am certainly interested in doing that. It's something I've wanted to do, but haven't been able to justify spending time on since there were paid tasks elsewhere. Tino, could you submit a formal bid then to apertium-...@dlsi.ua.es?

Re: [Apertium-stuff] [POSSIBLESPAM]: The non-viabilty of perfect format handling inApertium

2014-02-04 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Apertiumers, dear Gabriel: thanks a lot for this information. This adds to a discussion we had in the channel before, and there are already some outstanding proposals to solve this which I haven't been able to pay enough attention to, absorbed as I was by Google Code-In tasks. We should

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GSOC idea: make an app for Iphone/Ipad

2014-02-04 Thread Mikel Forcada
Porting to iOS is a good idea. Mikel Al 02/04/2014 10:56 PM, En/na Per Tunedal ha escrit: Hi, last summer we got a nice app for Android devices, but that's no good for my Ipad. Maybe it would be easy to make an app for IOS-devices? Yours, Per Tunedal

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GSOC Idea: Take a language pair and make it state of the art

2014-02-04 Thread Mikel Forcada
Quality tasks always steal my heart. +1 Al 02/04/2014 10:47 PM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: Hello all! Out of the 39 or so language pairs that we have in trunk/, only two or three could be considered to offer state of the art performance with respect to vocabulary coverage and translation

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Register request

2014-01-29 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 01/29/2014 07:01 PM, En/na M L ha escrit: Surpringly, the VM works, thanks! Why surprisingly? Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/) Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant E-03071 Alacant, Spain Phone: +34 96 590 9776 Fax: +34 96 590 9326

[Apertium-stuff] Kind reminder: Call for Papers: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on “Free/open-source language resources for the machine translation of less-resourced languages” at LREC 2014.

2014-01-21 Thread Mikel Forcada
Call for Papers: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on “Free/open-source language resources for the machine translation of less-resourced languages” at LREC 2014. A full-day workshop at LREC 2014 Tuesday, 27 May 2014. Reykjavik (Iceland) SALTMIL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/ LREC 2014:

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Diffing between revisions doesn't work on the wiki

2014-01-18 Thread Mikel Forcada
Ilnar, Fran was working the other day on some things that stopped working on our wiki but this one was not noticed. Fran, could you please take a look? Thanks Mikel Al 01/18/2014 09:42 PM, En/na Ilnar Salimzyan ha escrit: Hello, something's wrong with the wiki - diffing between revisions

Re: [Apertium-stuff] wiki broken

2014-01-16 Thread Mikel Forcada
Al 01/16/2014 06:11 PM, En/na Francis Tyers ha escrit: with help from Mikel That is an exaggeration. I just watched in awe ;-) Mikel -- Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/) Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant E-03071 Alacant, Spain Phone: +34 96

Re: [Apertium-stuff] GSOC 2014 intro

2014-01-15 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi there, some comments: apertium-tagger-training-tools: Machine learning of better taggers using target-language information You can read about this in Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada. Using target-language information to train part-of-speech taggers for

Re: [Apertium-stuff] cxu apertium estas kompilebla en Vindozo?

2014-01-12 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear Ivan, I am copying your message to the apertium-stuff list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff). It is probably a good idea to subscribe. Dear Apertiumers: Is there anyone out there who can help Ivan Kossey with the problem he describes? Thanls a million! All the

[Apertium-stuff] Call for Papers: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on “Free/open-source language resources for the machine translation of less-resourced languages” at LREC 2014.

2013-12-27 Thread Mikel Forcada
Call for Papers: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on “Free/open-source language resources for the machine translation of less-resourced languages” at LREC 2014. A full-day workshop at LREC 2014 Tuesday, 27 May 2014. Reykjavik (Iceland) SALTMIL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/ LREC 2014:

[Apertium-stuff] Another formatting error

2013-12-26 Thread Mikel Forcada
Dear all, two of my Google Code-In students (Darkgaia, Andrei) have found another source of HTML deformatting/reformatting errors and this seems to be a generic one. The file in https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/trunk/apertium-en-es/dev/formatting-errors/file2.html is valid, but the

[Apertium-stuff] Call for bids: Apertium maintenance

2013-12-26 Thread Mikel Forcada
Call for bids: Apertium maintenance We expect companies to generate offers to obtain a *yearly contract* to: * Maintain the following machine translation systems up to date, at least quarterly, to the last stable version: o The systems available through the Apertium.org web interface

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