User:Asfrent/MSc Log

MSc

Plan, questions, stuff

Short term plan / Pendings

Pending	Notes
Write a DCG for the apertium stream format.
Research UTF and Prolog.
Write a simple PoS disambiguator that keeps only the first reading.	A random disambiguator would also be useful.
Set up a repository for the project.	Sourceforge account, email to Francis. Commit stuff in apertium-branches.
Check licensing of MIL code.	No answer by email. :-(
Design internal representation of the input data.
Design rules.
Implement basic predicates.
Learn rules using MIL.
Write a python script that aligns and tests two outputs (handtagged vs disambiguated).

Log

11.07.2014

• Read ILP paper from Francis.
• Got MIL code, did a few tests.
• Tracked down and downloaded test data from Apertium project for the tagger.
• Read about tagging, CG and rules.
• Wrote a Prolog script that reads all the lines from a file.

12.07.2014

• Started to read CG docs in order to make the design of the data structures.
• Did a bit of research on Prolog DCG.
• Wrote stream tokenizer in Prolog.
• Wrote token splitter in Prolog.

13.07.2014

• Implemented and tested output writer.
• Implemented a trivial disambiguator that always selects the first reading. The number of mismatches from the hand tagged version lowered from 107 to 45 (this was kind of a test to ensure the two are actually aligned and match a bit better).
• Designed the internal structure of the data. We will keep the initial split tokens in lists and remove tags from these lists. Each one of the lists will have a metadata slot allocated somewhere (probably in a metadata list). I should research hashtables, trees, or whatever fast lookup data structure Prolog might have.

14.07.2014

• wrote the initial version of a diff script that will analyse the differences between two tagged versions.
• set up SF account for the apertium svn repo.

23.07.2014

• back in London from a 2 week holiday in Romania
• implemented the baseline disambiguator in Python.