Google Summer of Code/Application 2011 - Revision history

Jona at 12:21, 20 June 2019

2019-06-20T12:21:58Z

Jimregan: more

2011-03-11T11:24:07Z

Jimregan: add Unhammer

2011-03-11T10:50:39Z

add Unhammer

Jimregan: update a little more

2011-03-11T10:44:44Z

update a little more

Jimregan: more stuff, not finished

2011-03-11T10:41:57Z

more stuff, not finished

Francis Tyers at 17:19, 1 March 2011

2011-03-01T17:19:53Z

Francis Tyers: /* Application */

2011-03-01T14:03:26Z

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Francis Tyers: /* Application */

2011-03-01T14:02:24Z

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2011-03-01T13:52:47Z

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 Kevin Unhammer is studying for a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway. He was a successful student in 2009's GSoC, who went on to mentor last year's successful multiwords project.
+Víctor Sánchez Cartagena is a PhD student at Universitat d'Alacant. He was a successful student in 2009's GSoC, and is the primary developer of Tradubi.
+Miquel Esplà is a PhD student at Universitat d'Alacant. He is the primary developer of bitextor, and has recently completed some major additions to apertium-dixtools.
 ;What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

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 Lluís Villarejo Muñoz is a project manager in natural language processing (NLP) at the Office of Learning Technologies of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He leads the project integrating Apertium into their translation systems and has been involved in many other NLP development projects. He has a unique perspective as both a large-scale user and developer of Apertium. He mentored last year's successful 'Advanced Web Interface' project.
+Kevin Unhammer is studying for a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway. He was a successful student in 2009's GSoC, who went on to mentor last year's successful multiwords project.
 ;What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

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 Jimmy O'Regan is based in Ireland, he is the instigator and developer of the English--Polish language pair, and also works on, well, almost everything. He was a mentor for 2009's successful apertium-service project, and 2010's successful Czech-Polish MT project.
-Felipe Sánchez Martínez is an lecturer in Computer Science at the Universitat d'Alacant. He is responsible for coding the part-of-speech tagger of Apertium as well as the maintainer of  packages apertium-tagger-training-tools and apertium-transfer-tools. He was mentor of the trigram tagger project last year, which was successful.
+Felipe Sánchez Martínez is an lecturer in Computer Science at the Universitat d'Alacant. He is responsible for coding the part-of-speech tagger of Apertium as well as the maintainer of  packages apertium-tagger-training-tools and apertium-transfer-tools. He was mentor of the trigram tagger project in 2009, which was successful.
-Kevin Scannell is head of Computer Science at Saint Louis University. He is known in the free software community for his work on Irish, and has been working on Irish--Scottish Gaelic in Apertium. He was a mentor last year, although his student was unsuccessful, we are happy to have him back this year.
+Kevin Scannell is head of Computer Science at Saint Louis University. He is known in the free software community for his work on Irish, and has been working on Irish--Scottish Gaelic in Apertium. He was a mentor in 2009, although his student was unsuccessful, we are happy to have him back this year.
-Trond Trosterud is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Tromsø. He has worked on language technology for many years and was mentor on 2009's successful Norwegian Nynorsk--Norwegian Bokmål project, and 2010's
+Trond Trosterud is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Tromsø. He has worked on language technology for many years and was mentor on 2009's successful Norwegian Nynorsk--Norwegian Bokmål project, and acted as co-mentor on both the multiwords and Sámi-Finnish MT projects.
 Francis Tyers is a graduate student of Computer Science at the Universitat d'Alacant. He is the main developer of several language packages and has worked on several more. He mentored 2009's successful multi-engine MT project, and 2010's successful French-Portuguese MT project.
 Lluís Villarejo Muñoz is a project manager in natural language processing (NLP) at the Office of Learning Technologies of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He leads the project integrating Apertium into their translation systems and has been involved in many other NLP development projects. He has a unique perspective as both a large-scale user and developer of Apertium. He mentored last year's successful 'Advanced Web Interface' project.
 ;What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

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 ;What criteria did you use to select the individuals who will act as mentors for your organization? Please be as specific as possible.
+Mikel L. Forcada is a professor of Computer Science and has led all of the research that has been done at the Universitat d'Alacant in the field of machine translation. He is responsible for much of the current design of Apertium. Mikel was mentor for the successful dictionary interface project in last year's GSoC.
+Jacob Nordfalk is an associate professor of Computer Science and author of several books on programming in Java in Danish. He is the primary developer on the English--Esperanto pair and has also done a lot of work on apertium-dixtools. He was mentor for the successful Swedish--Danish project in 2009's GSOC, and the successful Java port of Apertium in 2010.
+Sergio Ortiz Rojas is the senior programmer at Prompsit Language Engineering and is responsible for most of the engine code in Apertium; he is, therefore, the developer of reference when it comes to develop new code for the platform. He was mentor for 2009's successful lttoolbox-java project, and 2010's unsuccessful VM project.
+Juan Antonio Pérez Ortiz is a lecturer at the Universitat d'Alacant, he was a mentor for the Apertium project in 2009 and mentored the successful scalable web service project.
+Gema Ramírez Sánchez is manager of Prompsit Language Engineering, a company providing services based on Apertium. She has worked on the project for many years, on pairs including Spanish--Catalan, French--Spanish, Spanish--Portuguese and French--Catalan. She is also our backup organisation administrator.
+Jimmy O'Regan is based in Ireland, he is the instigator and developer of the English--Polish language pair, and also works on, well, almost everything. He was a mentor for 2009's successful apertium-service project, and 2010's successful Czech-Polish MT project.
+Felipe Sánchez Martínez is an lecturer in Computer Science at the Universitat d'Alacant. He is responsible for coding the part-of-speech tagger of Apertium as well as the maintainer of  packages apertium-tagger-training-tools and apertium-transfer-tools. He was mentor of the trigram tagger project last year, which was successful.
+Kevin Scannell is head of Computer Science at Saint Louis University. He is known in the free software community for his work on Irish, and has been working on Irish--Scottish Gaelic in Apertium. He was a mentor last year, although his student was unsuccessful, we are happy to have him back this year.
+Trond Trosterud is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Tromsø. He has worked on language technology for many years and was mentor on 2009's successful Norwegian Nynorsk--Norwegian Bokmål project, and 2010's
+Francis Tyers is a graduate student of Computer Science at the Universitat d'Alacant. He is the main developer of several language packages and has worked on several more. He mentored 2009's successful multi-engine MT project, and 2010's successful French-Portuguese MT project.
+Lluís Villarejo Muñoz is a project manager in natural language processing (NLP) at the Office of Learning Technologies of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He leads the project integrating Apertium into their translation systems and has been involved in many other NLP development projects. He has a unique perspective as both a large-scale user and developer of Apertium. He mentored last year's successful 'Advanced Web Interface' project.
 ;What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
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 ;If you are a large organization who is vouching for a small organization applying to GSoC for their first time this year, please list their name and why you think they'd be good candidates for GSoC here:
+LanguageTool is an open source grammar checker for (among others) OpenOffice/LibreOffice. They have a strong tradition of mentoring within their community, which would translate well to GSoC.
-* GrammarSoft ApS
-* LanguageTool
+GrammarSoft ApS is the company behind the Constraint Grammar (CG) software. The main developer of the project, Tino Didriksen, has been in contact with Apertium for a number of years, and has always been keen to help, implement new feature improvements, and debug changes that we have made.
-* HFST
+HFST is based at the University of Helsinki. A PhD student in their project, Tommi Pirinen mentored last year for Apertium, and his project was a great success. Their group is responsive to emails and very eager to help people use their software.
+The Institute of Interdisciplinary studies, Warsaw University, Poland, are developing a range of tools for corpus linguistics. As educators, they are in constant contact with students.
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 ;Main Organization License:
-GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL2)
+GNU General Public Licence version 2.0 (GPL2)
 ;Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2011? What do you hope to gain by participating?

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 * Developers who have been chosen as mentors will be available for as long as possible at the <code>#apertium</code> IRC channel &mdash; or another agreed on messaging system &mdash; so that the student may receive guidance with any problem they may have during development and before taking decisions on which task to select.
 * As we did in 2009 and 2010, we will try to get them involved as early as possible in the project, by granting them developer status, so they can modify code and data as any other developer would.
-* For the past two years, we have organised an academic workshop, FreeRBMT ([http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/freerbmt FreeRBMT2009], [http://www.uoc.edu/freerbmt11/ FreeRBMT2011])
+* For the past two years, we have organised an academic workshop, FreeRBMT ([http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/freerbmt09/ FreeRBMT2009], [http://www.uoc.edu/freerbmt11/ FreeRBMT2011])
 ;If you are a small or new organization applying to GSoC, please list a larger, established GSoC organization or a Googler that can vouch for you here.

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 ;Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.
-* Apertium took part in GSoC in 2009 and 2010. We received 9 slots in 2009, and 8 in 2010, and are very happy with the results of our participation. Our main successes and challenges are described below:
+* Apertium took part in GSoC in 2009 and 2010. We received 9 slots in 2009, and 9 again in 2010, and are very happy with the results of our participation. Our main successes and challenges are described below:
 * Successes
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 ** Persuading students to publicise their results, we got around half of our students to present their work to the wider community, but some either didn't plan to have the time or we weren't persuasive enough.
-;If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the ratio of students passing to students allocated, e.g. 2006: 3/6 for 3 out of 6 students passed in 2006.
+;If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the ratio of students passing to students allocated, e.g. 2006<nowiki>:</nowiki> 3/6 for 3 out of 6 students passed in 2006.
-: 8/9, 2010: 8/8
+* 2009: 8/9
+* 2010: 8/9
 ;What is the URL for your ideas page?
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 * Developers who have been chosen as mentors will be available for as long as possible at the <code>#apertium</code> IRC channel &mdash; or another agreed on messaging system &mdash; so that the student may receive guidance with any problem they may have during development and before taking decisions on which task to select.
 * As we did in 2009 and 2010, we will try to get them involved as early as possible in the project, by granting them developer status, so they can modify code and data as any other developer would.
-* For the past two years, we have organised an academic workshop, FreeRBMT,
+* For the past two years, we have organised an academic workshop, FreeRBMT ([http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/freerbmt FreeRBMT2009], [http://www.uoc.edu/freerbmt11/ FreeRBMT2011])
 ;If you are a small or new organization applying to GSoC, please list a larger, established GSoC organization or a Googler that can vouch for you here.
-not applicable
+* Not applicable
 ;If you are a large organization who is vouching for a small organization applying to GSoC for their first time this year, please list their name and why you think they'd be good candidates for GSoC here: