User:Dshgna/GSoC 2014 Proposal - Revision history

Dshgna: /* Why Google and Apertium should sponsor it? */

2014-03-18T06:13:14Z

Why Google and Apertium should sponsor it?

Dshgna: /* Work plan */

2014-03-17T19:31:38Z

Work plan

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Dshgna: /* Why is it you are interested in machine translation? */

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Why is it you are interested in machine translation?

Dshgna: /* Work plan */

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Work plan

Dshgna: /* List your skills and give evidence of your qualifications */

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List your skills and give evidence of your qualifications

Dshgna: /* Work plan */

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Work plan

Dshgna: /* List your skills and give evidence of your qualifications */

2014-03-17T19:02:28Z

List your skills and give evidence of your qualifications

Dshgna at 18:55, 17 March 2014

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Dshgna at 18:05, 17 March 2014

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-Currently Apertium has no language pair for Sinhala-Tamil. Both of these are low resource languages with a lack of open source MT systems. The only related language pair in Apertium is Sinhala-English in the nursery. (a quick literature review showed that Sinhala-Tamil translation has been only attempted using SMT which yielded low results due to the lack of language resources).
+Currently Apertium has no language pair for Sinhala-Tamil. Both of these are low resource languages with a lack of open source MT systems. The only related language pair in Apertium is Sinhala-English in the incubator. (a quick literature review showed that Sinhala-Tamil translation has been only attempted using SMT which yielded low results due to the lack of language resources).
-Sponsoring my work on this language pair will enable me to develop resources for two less resourced languages which in turn will enable others to use them for future work.
+Sponsoring my work on this language pair will enable me to develop resources for two less resourced languages which in turn will enable others to use them for future work.
 == A description of how and who it will benefit in society ==

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 Week 11:
-testing
+testing using testvoce
 Week 12:
-testing
+testing using testvoce
 releasing

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 == Why is it you are interested in machine translation? ==
-I am an Information Technology undergrad with a love for linguistics. Machine translation is the perfect combined application for both these interests! Additionally, I  live in a multilingual country given me first hand experience of the political, socio-economic and educational divide caused due to the language barrier. This makes me appreciate the need of MT and the change it would make.
+I am an Information Technology undergraduate with a love for linguistics. Machine translation is the perfect combined application for both these interests! Additionally, I  live in a multilingual country given me first hand experience of the political, socio-economic and educational divide caused due to the language barrier. This makes me appreciate the need of MT and the change it would make to make the world a better place.
 == Why is it that you are interested in the Apertium project? ==

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 Week 1:
-Improve Sinhala monodix to a goal of 300 new words.
+Improve Sinhala monodix to a goal of 3000 total words.
 Week 2:
-Improve Tamil monodix by creating pardefs and adding nouns, adverbs, adjectives and numerals to a goal of a total of 250 new words.
+Improve Tamil monodix by creating pardefs and adding nouns, adverbs, adjectives and numerals to a goal of a total of 3000 total words.
 Week 3:
-Improve the Tamil monodix by adding verbs to a total of 50 new verbs of differing pardef types.
+Improve the Tamil monodix by adding verbs and adjectives to a goal of 4000 total words.
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 Week 8:
-Improve Sinhala monodix to a total of 2000 words
+Improve Sinhala monodix to a total of 8000 words
 Week 9:
-Improve Tamil monodix to a total of 2000 words
+Improve Tamil monodix to a total of 8000 words
 Week 10:

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 Current progress is as follows
-. Created a frequency based ordering of 100 words from the manually translated Sinhala text)
+. Created a frequency based ordering of approx. 100 words from the manually translated Sinhala text)
 . Created pardefs and added approximately 40 of these words to the Sinhala monodix
-. Created pardefs and added approximately 20 of the corresponding Tamil words to the monodix
+. Created pardefs and added approximately 40 of the corresponding Tamil words to the monodix
 . Created skeleton bidix and transfer rules files.

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 Project completion
 Final evaluation
 == List your skills and give evidence of your qualifications ==

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 Name: Dulshani Gunawardhana
 E-mail address: dulshani[dot]gunawardhana89@gmail[dot]com
 IRC: dshgna
 '''Why is it you are interested in machine translation?'''
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-I am very interested in both languages and computer science, for which machine translation is the perfect combined application! Additionally, I  live in a multilingual country given me first hand experience of the political, socio-economic and educational divide caused due to the language barrier. This makes me appreciate the need of MT and the change it would make.
+I am a computer science undergrad with a huge interest in linguistics. Machine translation is the perfect combined application for both these interests! Additionally, I  live in a multilingual country given me first hand experience of the political, socio-economic and educational divide caused due to the language barrier. This makes me appreciate the need of MT and the change it would make.
 '''Why is it that you are interested in the Apertium project?'''
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-The concept of freedom of software, specially when applied to a domain as complex as MT, is extremely appealing. The emphasis of Apertium on less-resourced languages is one of my interested points as it opens the door to many MT projects that would never see the light of day due to lack of funding and interest.
+The concept of freedom of software, specially when applied to a domain as complex as MT, is extremely appealing to me. The emphasis of Apertium on less-resourced languages is one of my interested points as it opens the door to many MT projects that would never see the light of day due to lack of funding and interest.
 '''Which of the published tasks are you interested in? What do you plan to do?'''