Task ideas for Google Code-in

This is the task ideas page for Google Code-in (http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012), here you can find ideas on interesting tasks that will improve your knowledge of Apertium and help you get into the world of open-source development.

The people column lists people who you should get in contact with to request further information. All tasks are 2 hours maximum estimated amount of time that should be spent on the task, however, this does not include time taken to install / set up apertium.

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Categories:

• code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
• documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
• research: Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
• quality: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.
• interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

Task list

Category	Title	Description	Mentors
code	Write lexical selection rules	Write 50 lexical selection rules for 10 words.	Francis Tyers
code	Add entries to transfer lexicon	Add 100 entries to a transfer lexicon of your choice.	Francis Tyers
code	Write transfer rules	Write 5 transfer rules for a new language pair.	Jimregan
code	Dictionary conversion	Write a conversion module for an existing dictionary for apertium-dixtools.	Jimregan
code	Apertium support for morfologik	Add support to morfologik for reading Apertium-format dictionaries	Jimregan
research	Write a contrastive grammar	Using a grammar document 20 sample cases of grammatical differences between two languages	Francis Tyers - Zfe
research	Disambiguating text	You will be given ambiguous sentences in a language. Your job is to pick the correct morphological reading in context	Francis Tyers - Zfe
quality	Profile apertium-lex-tools	Take a large corpus, and run it through apertium-lex-tools to find out how long the program spends in each part of the code.	Francis Tyers
interface	Design a nice javascript drop-down box	Taking as inspiration the Google Translate drop-down box, design a similar drop-down for Apertium. Will require knowledge of JavaScript™	Francis Tyers
interface	Dictionary lookup	Integrate the Javascript dictionary lookup tool into the translation interface (AWI), to offer alternative translations where available	Jimregan
quality	System quality control	Read 500 words of machine translation output and report on translation errors	Francis Tyers - Zfe
quality	Input correction	Write 10 rules for LanguageTool for common errors that affect translation	Jimregan
quality	Post-correction rules	Write 10 rules for LanguageTool to fix Apertium-generated errors	Jimregan
quality	New release check	Compare released language pairs with their SVN version, to see which language pairs need a new release	Jimregan
quality	Testvoc	Help prepare a language pair for a new release by fixing 20 dictionary entries with generation errors	Jimregan
documentation	Check installation instructions	Check that the installation instructions are up to date and work. Report any problems.	Francis Tyers - Zfe
documentation	Check new language pair howto	Read through the new language pair howto and check to see if it works.	Francis Tyers - Zfe
documentation	Check new language with lttoobox howto		Francis Tyers - Zfe
documentation	Check new language with HFST howto		Francis Tyers - Zfe
interface	Design the new webpage of apertium.org	Design, using HTML+CSS. The page should validate with the W3C validator.	Francis Tyers - Zfe
interface	Interface the new website with the webservice	Interface the new website with the webservice provided by Apertium. JavaScript knowledge required.	Francis Tyers - Zfe
research	Categorise words	For 100 words find the right inflection paradigm.	Francis Tyers - Zfe
research	Catalogue resources	Catalogue all the available resources (grammatical descriptions, wordlists, dictionaries, spellcheckers, papers, corpora, etc.), along with the licences they are under.	Francis Tyers - Zfe
research	Make a list of potential language pairs		Francis Tyers - Zfe
research	Make a 50 sentences long translation memory	Make a 50 sentences translation memory using text found on Wikipedia	Francis Tyers - Zfe
documentation	Document the mecab tag set		Francis Tyers