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== Contact Information ==
*'''Name:''' Pedro Manicardi Soares
* '''Email:''' pedromanic@usp.br 
* '''Github:''' https://github.com/PedroManicardi
* '''IRC:''' pedro_manic
* '''Timezone:''' UTC-2


== Background ==
A fourth year computer engineering student at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
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Native Language: Portuguese
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Other Languages: English (advanced), Spanish (basics)

== Skills ==
* C
* C++
* xml
* python
* linux

== Why am I interested in Apertium? ==
* Apertium has an active community, with people to help you when you are in difficulty.
* Learn and contribute to open-source projects and know how they work.
* Apertium is a PLN community and I have specialized in this field during my undergraduate studies.

==Which of the published tasks am I interested in? What do I plan to do?==
I am interested in the task "Add Capitalization Handling Module to a Language Pair". My goal is to add Capitalization rules to Spanish-Portuguese(es-pt) pair.

== Proposal ==


=== Deliverables ===


== Why should Google and Apertium sponsor it? ==
Correct capitalization will improve the experience of millions of people when using MT. This project will contribute to the community, with the potential to use the rules for more language-pairs. For more, once Google sponsor, will contribute to open source development.

== How and who will it benefit in society? ==


== Coding Challenge == 

I implemented the modules for extracting and restoring capitalization for the es-pt language pair. The code cand be find [https://github.com/PedroManicardi/capitalization-restoration here]. This program have the capitalization handling module, so sets the first word of a sentence to uppercase.

== Work plan ==
=== Community bonding period (May 1 - 26): ===

* Get to know better the tools of Apertium and its community
* See how capitalization of uppercase letters is currently implemented
* Learn more about XML tools
* Identify issues with the current implementation

===Work Period (May 27 - August 26)===
Week 1 (May 27 - July 02): 
*Introducing caps-restoration for the language pair es-pt.
*Understanding better the capitalization rules.
Week 2 (June 03-09):
*Implementing the existing rules.
*Adding more rules targeting common scenarios.
Week 3 (June 10-16):
*Continuing to create new capitalization rules.
*Beginning to transition capitalization to monolingual modules.
Week 4 (June 17-23):
*Creating tests.
*Correcting errors.
*Updating documentation.
* '''Deliverable #1'''

Week 5 (June 24-30): 

Week 6 (July 01-07):

Week 7 (July 12-18):

Week 8 (July 19-25):

* '''Deliverable #2'''

Week 9,10 (July 26 - August 07): 

Week 11,12 (August 08 - 19):


'''Project completed'''

== Other Summer Plans ==
I will have final exams in two last weeks of June so i will dedicate my self 10 hours per week. In the rest I can dedicate 30 hours per week. Vacation in July and August so I can devote 40 hours per week
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