List of Apertium mentors

We know that some people might be interested in working on Apertium, but not know where to start. We have lots of documentation, but sometimes what you really want to do is sit down and have a chat and ask questions with someone who knows a lot about the project. You might want to tell them what your skills are, what you think you are good at, and ask if they have any ideas for how you might get started. That's where Apertium mentors come in!

If you decide to contact one of our mentors, the best way would be either on IRC, or by emailing them. Each mentor has a link next to their name that allows you to write them an email (but you'll need an account on the Wiki first!).

Each of our mentors has a list of languages which they speak (in bold) and which they understand, so you can communicate in the language which you prefer.

Mentor profiles

Photo	Name	IRC nick	Language(s)	Interests	Bio
	Francis Morton Tyers (wiki · email)	spectie, spectei, spectre	english, castellano, català, français	Under-resourced, regional, and marginalised languages.	I'm a PhD student at the Universitat d'Alacant. Apart from machine translation, I'm interested in rule-based approaches to morphological analysis and disambiguation, dependency grammars and lexical selection.
	Kevin Brubeck Unhammer (wiki · email)	unhammer, unhammerd, rehammer	norsk, english, deutsch, nederlands	Rule-based NLP, marginalised languages.	I've worked mostly on Norwegian and Sámi language pairs in Apertium, as well as Constraint Grammar disambiguation, but take an interest in pretty much anything related to natural language text processing.
	Jonathan North Washington (wiki · email)	firespeaker, jonorthwash, kd5cfx	english, қазақша, кыргызча, русский, татарча, ўзбекча/o'zbekcha, халхаар/монголоор, français, español	Phonetics/phonology, language documentation, Turkic languages	I'm a Ph.D. student at Indiana University. I work mainly on phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics, and language documentation, and am most interested in Turkic languages. My relevant strengths are in developing computational morphologies and phonologies using lexc and twol.
	Jacob Nordfalk (wiki · email)	jacobEo	dansk, esperanto, norsk, english, svenska, deutsch, nepali	Professor in computer science.	I've worked mostly on the Esperanto-English and a little on Swedish-Danish pairs in Apertium, as well as the core code (lttoolbox-java), Android, dixtools.