Task ideas for Google Code-in

This is the task ideas page for Google Code-in, here you can find ideas on interesting tasks that will improve your knowledge of Apertium and help you get into the world of open-source development.

The people column lists people who you should get in contact with to request further information. All tasks are 2 hours maximum estimated amount of time that would be spent on the task by an experienced developer, however:

1. this is the time expected to take by an experienced developer, you may find that you spend more time on the task because of the learning curve.

Categories:

• code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
• documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
• research: Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketting, or studying problems and recommending solutions
• quality: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.
• design: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

Clarification of "multiple task" types

• multi = number of students who can do a given task
• dup = number of times a student can do the same task

You can find descriptions of some of the mentors here.

Task ideas

type	title	description	tags	mentors	bgnr?	multi?	duplicates
research	Join us on IRC	Use an IRC client to log onto our IRC channel and stick around for four hours.	irc	*	yes	150
research, quality	Adopt a Wiki page	Request for an Apertium Wiki account and adopt a Wiki page by updating and fixing any issues with it.	wiki	*	yes	150
code, design	Make source browser headings sticky at bottom of window	Make headings that are out of view (either below when at the top, or above when scrolled down) sticky on Apertium source browser, so that it's clear what other headings exist. There is a github issue for this.	css, javascript, html, web	sushain, JNW, xavivars, shardulc	no
code, quality	Increase test coverage of begiak, our IRC bot, by at least 10%	There are many modules without any tests at all, unfortunately. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	python, bot	sushain, JNW, wei2912, Josh, shardulc	no	4	4
code	Improve the .logs command of begiak, our IRC bot	Currently, the .logs command just links to the root logs. Ideally, it would link to the channel specific logs, support a time being handed to it and have tests. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	python, bot	sushain, JNW, wei2912, Josh, shardulc	no
code	Update the awikstats module of begiak, our IRC bot, for GitHub	There are a couple steps remaining for this process, mostly small modifications to the existing code which are enumerated in the associated GitHub issue which also contains more context and discussion.	python, bot	sushain, JNW, wei2912, shardulc	no
code, research	Research and propose a flood control system for begiak, our IRC bot	Begiak often floods the channel with notifications from modules such as git. Compile a list of modules which flood Begiak, write a mini-report on the associated GitHub issue and propose changes to be made to the modules. For each module, there should be an issue created with a list of proposed changes, referenced from the main issue. The issue should be added to the associated GitHub project.	python, bot	sushain, JNW, wei2912, shardulc	no
code, research, quality	Clean up obsolete modules for begiak, our IRC bot	Refer to the associated GitHub issue for more details. After this task, the list of modules on Begiak's wiki page should be updated.	python, bot, wiki	sushain, JNW, wei2912, shardulc	yes
code	Add GitHub issue creation functionality to begiak, our IRC bot	Ideally, this would be added to an existing module. If that doesn't make sense, a new module is acceptable as well. The associated GitHub issue includes an example of the command's usage and reply.	python, github, bot	sushain, JNW, wei2912, Josh, shardulc	no
code	Support GitHub modules in apertium-get	Unfortunately, the transition to GitHub from SVN made it so this script which is very handy for downloading an Apertium language/pair doesn't fetch the newest packages anymore. This also means that beta.apertium.org is out of date. See the associated GitHub issue issue for more details and discussion.	bash, github	sushain, Unhammer, wei2912, Josh, xavivars, shardulc	no
code, quality	Add default CI configs to Apertium packages via Apertium-init	Currently, some Apertium pairs/language modules use CI but it's very inconsistent and doesn't come by default. Apertium-init is the official way to bootstrap a new Apertium package so if it came with CI support by default, that would be great. See the associated GitHub issue issue for more details and discussion.	ci, circleci, yaml	sushain, Unhammer, wei2912, xavivars, shardulc	no
code	Ensure XML produced by Apertium-init has consistent XML declarations	Currently, some XML produced by Apertium-init, a script which allows bootstrapping Apertium packages easily, has declarations and some doesn't. Moreover, the declarations are sometimes inconsistent. All XML files should have the same declaration. Note that not all of the XML files in Apertium-init use the .xml file extension. See the associated GitHub issue issue for more details and discussion.	xml, python	sushain, Unhammer, wei2912, xavivars	yes
code, quality	Make Apertium-init's default Makefiles and config files pass make distcheck	Currently, the distcheck target for packages created with Apertium-init, a script which allows bootstrapping Apertium packages easily, does not pass the distcheck target. This task requires fixing this issue. See the associated GitHub issue issue for more details and discussion.	python, autotools, make, bash	Unhammer, Flammie, Unhammer, Josh	no
code, quality	Increase Apertium-init test coverage	Currently, we have a decent set of tests for the script but there are some more complex behaviors such as GitHub interaction that we don't test. This task requires making substantial improvements to the test coverage numbers. See the associated GitHub issue issue for more details and discussion.	python, unittest	sushain, Unhammer, wei2912	no
code	Ignore .prob files in bilingual modules created by Apertium-init	Apertium-init bootstraps Apertium packages and comes with a default gitignore. This gitignore could be improved by making it ignore *.prob files but only for pairs since they are meaningful for language modules. It would be extra cool if we had some tests for this functionality that weren't too contrived. See the associated GitHub issue issue for more details and discussion.	python, git	sushain, Unhammer, wei2912, Josh	no
code	Set repository topic on repos created by Apertium-init	Apertium-init bootstraps Apertium packages and supports creating an associated GitHub repository. Our source browser and other scripts expect a GitHub repository topic like "apertium-incubator". This task requires creating the incubator topic by default on repo push with an option for custom topics. See the associated GitHub issue issue for more details and discussion.	python, github, http	sushain, Unhammer, wei2912, xavivars, shardulc, JNW	no
code	Install Apertium and verify that it works	See Installation for instructions and if you encounter any issues along the way, document them and/or improve the Wiki!	bash	ftyers, JNW, Unhammer, anakuz, Josh, fotonzade	yes	150
research	Write a contrastive grammar	Document 6 differences between two (preferably related) languages and where they would need to be addressed in the Apertium pipeline (morph analysis, transfer, etc). Use a grammar book/resource for inspiration. Each difference should have no fewer than 3 examples. Put your work on the Apertium wiki under Language1_and_Language2/Contrastive_grammar. See Farsi_and_English/Pending_tests for an example of a contrastive grammar that a previous GCI student made.	wiki, languages	Mikel, JNW, Josh, xavivars, fotonzade	yes	40
quality	Add 200 new entries to a bidix to language pair %AAA%-%BBB%	Our translation systems require large lexicons so as to provide production-quality coverage of any input data. This task requires the student to add 200 new words to a bidirectional dictionary. Read more...	xml, dictionaries, svn	Mikel, anakuz, xavivars, fotonzade	yes	40
quality	Add 500 new entries to a bidix to language pair %AAA%-%BBB%	Our translation systems require large lexicons so as to provide production-quality coverage of any input data. This task requires the student to add 500 new words to a bidirectional dictionary. Read more...	xml, dictionaries, svn	Mikel, anakuz, xavivars, fotonzade, ftyers	no		10
quality	Post-edit 100 sentences of any public domain text from %AAA% to %BBB%	Many of our systems benefit from statistical methods used with (ideally public domain) bilingual data. For this task, you need to translate a public domain text from %AAA% to %BBB% using any available machine translation system and clean up the translations yourself manually. Commit the post-edited texts (in plain text format) to an existing (via pull request) or if needed new github repository for the pair in dev/ or texts/ folder. The texts are subject to mentor approval.	xml, dictionaries, svn	fotonzade, JNW, ftyers, anakuz, xavivars, Mikel, shardulc	yes	10
quality	Disambiguate 500 tokens of text in %AAA%	Run some text through a morphological analyser and disambiguate the output. Contact the mentor beforehand to approve the choice of language and text. Read more...	disambiguation, svn	Mikel, anakuz, xavivars, fotonzade		yes
code	Use SWIG or equivalent to add C++ bindings for text analysis in apertium-python	Currently, apertium-python just pipes text through the binaries in each mode file. We would like to directly execute the associated C++ function instead. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	python, c++, swig	sushain	no
code	Use cgo to integrate apertium and lttoolbox C++ libraries in Go	Currently, all apertium core libraries are written in C++. There are other languuages, like Go, where concurrency is at the very core of the language itself. It would be great to be able to write small programs like the new lt-proc intergeneration in Go, using cgo as a way to bind both languages.	go, c++, cgo	xavivars
code	Integrate HFST's C++ Python bindings into apertium-python	Currently, apertium-python just pipes text through the binaries in each mode file. Where appropriate, i.e. a mode accesses HFST binaries, we would like to directly execute the associated C++ function instead.	python, c++, swig	sushain	no
code	Improve the apertium-python Windows installation process	Currently, apertium-python requires a complex installation process for Windows (and Linux). The goal is something that works out-of-the-box with pip. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	python, windows	sushain, wei2912, arghya	no
code	Setup scripts for [1], the relevant issue to ask questions is [[2]]	Write setup.py scripts that install the current setup of Apertium+Python and also additionally make the setup.py script work on Windows too.	python, windows	sushain, arghya	yes
documentation, code	Setup documentation generation for apertium-python	Currently, there are some docstrings attached to functions and constants. This task requires setting up Sphinx/readthedocs for apertium-python so these docs are easily accessible. Types should also be visible and documentation should support being written in Markdown, not RST. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	python, sphinx	sushain, Josh, arghya	no
code, design	Upgrade apertium.org (html-tools) to Bootstrap 4	Currently, we are on a frankensteined version of Bootstrap 3. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion. Note that the frankenstein'd CSS will likely need to be fixed and theme support should be retained (should be simple).	javascript, css, web, bootstrap	sushain, xavivars, shardulc	no
code, quality	Get apertium.org (html-tools) QUnit testing coverage working	Currently, we have a QUnit testing framework mostly complete. There are some fixes that need to be made in discussion with the mentor and existing comments and JS coverage checking needs to be added so that we can burn down existing debt. See the associated GitHub PR for more details and discussion.	javascript, jquery, web	sushain, jjjppp	no
code, quality	Fix/prevent apertium.org (html-tools)'s recursive website translation	Currently, if you try translating Apertium's website with Apertium's website, bad things happen. This 'exploit' is also possible through mutual recursion with another site that offers similar behavior. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	javascript, jquery, web, bootstrap	sushain, Unhammer, shardulc	no
code	Convert apertium.org's API (APy)'s language name storage from SQL to TSV	Currently, language names that power part of the Apertium HTTP API are stored and updated in SQL. It would be nice if they were stored in a more human readable format like TSV and the SQLite were generated at build time. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	python, sql, tsv	sushain, Unhammer, xavivars	no
code	Support unicode without escape sequences in apertium.org's API (APy)	Currently, HTTP responses with unicode characters are emitted as \uNNNN by the Apertium API. Ideally, the character could just be decoded. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	python, api, unicode, json, api, http	sushain, Unhammer, shardulc	no
code	Make apertium.org (html-tools) fail more gracefully when the API is down	Currently, html-tools relies on an API endpoint to translate documents, files, etc. However, when this API is down the interface also breaks! This task requires fixing this breakage. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	javascript, html, css, web	sushain, Unhammer, shardulc	no
code, design	Refine the apertium.org (html-tools) dictionary interface	Significant progress has been made towards providing a dictionary-style interface within html-tools. This task requires refining the existing PR by de-conflicting it with master and resolving the interface concerns discussed here. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	javascript, html, css, web	sushain, shardulc	no
code, design	Chained translation path interface for apertium.org (html-tools)	Significant progress has been made towards providing an interface for selecting a path for chained (multi-step) translation in html-tools. The code is currently in a branch that needs to be de-conflicted with master, refined to accommodate changes in the main interface since the code was written, tested, and finally merged.	javascript, html, css, web	sushain, shardulc	no
code, documentation	Add a Swagger/OpenAPI specification for apertium.org's API (APy)	There's been some work towards this already but it's outdated. This task requires updating it and for bonus points ensuring at build time that all paths are minimally present in the Swagger spec. Furthermore, it would be awesome if a simple HTTP page could be made that loads the spec (e.g. this page for another service). See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	python, api, http, openapi, swagger	sushain, xavivars	no
code	Accept ISO-639-1 codes in apertium-stats-service	This task requires making /en-es, /en-spa, etc. work the same as /eng-spa and then adding tests that verify the behavior. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	rust, api, http	sushain	no
code	Support listing of packages in apertium-stats-service	This information is something that is useful in a lot of different places, for example, our source browser. By having the stats service implement it, everyone doesn't have to write the same code in different languages and the information gets cached. For GCI task credit, the last commit info is not required (another task can be made for that feature). This task requires implementing the initial feature, adding some basic tests and tweaking the swagger spec. One or more of those tasks can be broken into other task(s) if the mentor sees fit and the student requests it. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	rust, api, http, rest	sushain	no
code	Add configurable timeout support to apertium-stats-service	Currently, a stats request has no clear timeout and can take ~forever if the async option is not present. This tasks requires adding a timeout option, adding tests and then tweaking the swagger spec. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	rust, api, http, rest	sushain	no
code	Surface errors to the client in apertium-stats-service	Right now, errors are logged and swallowed. The client never knows what happened. This task requires implementing the feature, adding some basic tests and tweaking the swagger spec. One or more of those tasks can be broken into other task(s) if the mentor sees fit and the student requests it. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	rust, api, http, rest	sushain	no
code	Include Git SHA in apertium-stats-service's file info	Right now, only the SVN revision number is provided but that doesn't help with mapping back on to a SHA in Git/GH for the client. This task requires implementing the feature, adding some basic tests and tweaking the swagger spec. See the associated GitHub issue for more details and discussion.	rust, api, http, rest, git, svn	sushain	no
documentation	Create a screencast on how to add new entries to an apertium dictionary	Screencasts are popular cool way to create a tutorial. Show a narrated work-flow start-to-end on adding new words to a dictionary, compiling and then using it to translate. This task is probably easiest after completing a "Add 200 new entries to a bidix to language pair" task.	xml, dictionaries, screencast	Flammie, JNW, anakuz, Josh, shardulc	yes	no
documentation	Create a screencast on how to disambiguate tokens of text	Screencasts are popular cool way to create a tutorial. Show a narrated work-flow start-to-end on disambiguating the words. This task is probably easiest after completing a "Disambiguate 500 tokens" task.	disambiguation, screencast	Flammie, Josh, shardulc		no
quality	Create automated (travis-ci) test to ensure naïve coverage	The dictionaries can be tested on Coverage, the idea is to make test that operates on frequency word list to count a coverage of a dictionary and then integrate that to Makefile target check for travis to use.	test, python, bash	Flammie, wei2912	no	no
code	Scrape Apertium repo information into json	Write a script to scrape information about Apertium's translation pairs as they exist in GitHub repositories into a json file like this one.	python, git, json	JNW, sushain, wei2912, shardulc	no	no
code, design	Integrate globe viewer into language family visualiser interface	The family visualiser interface has four info boxes when a language is clicked on, and one of those boxes is empty. The globe viewer provides a globe visualisation of languages that we can translate a given language to and from. This task is to integrate the globe viewer for a specific language into the fourth box in the family visualiser. There is an associated GitHub issue.	d3, javascript	JNW, sushain, jjjppp	no	no
documentation	Fix (or document the blockers for) five mentions of SVN on the Apertium wiki	Apertium recently migrated to GitHub from SVN. There are unfortunately still a lot of pages on the Wiki in need of their references to the Wiki to SVN URLs and SVN in general. This task requires finding five such pages and either outright fixing them or documenting the difficulty involved in fixing the issues. Note Category:GitHub_migration_updates lists articles currently marked for needing migration but is not exhaustive.	wiki, github, svn	JNW, sushain, wei2912, Josh, xavivars, shardulc	no	5
research	Document resources for a language	Document resources for a language without resources already documented on the Apertium wiki. read more...	wiki, languages, grammar	JNW,ftyers, Josh, fotonzade, anakuz	yes	10
research	tesseract (OCR) interface for apertium languages	Find out what it would take to integrate apertium or voikkospell into tesseract OCR (image to text). Document thoroughly available options on the wiki.	ocr	JNW, Josh		no
research	Create a UD-Apertium morphology mapping	Choose a language that has a Universal Dependencies treebank and tabulate a potential set of Apertium morph labels based on the (universal) UD morph labels. See Apertium's list of symbols and UD's POS and feature tags for the labels.	morphology, ud, dependencies	JNW,ftyers, fotonzade		5
research	Create an Apertium-UD morphology mapping	Choose a language that has an Apertium morphological analyser and adapt it to convert the morphology to UD morphology	morphology, ud, dependencies	JNW, ftyers, fotonzade		5
code,design	Paradigm generator browser interface	Write a standalone webpage that makes queries (though javascript) to an apertium-apy server to fill in a morphological forms based on morphological tags that are hidden throughout the body of the page. For example, say you have the verb "say", and some tags like inf, past, pres.p3.sg—these forms would get filled in as "say", "said", "says".	javascript, html, apy	JNW,ftyers
Research	Syntactic trees	Pick up a text of ~200 words and make its syntactic annotation as for Universal Dependencies treebank. UD Annotatrix can be used for visualisation. Consult with mentor about the language.	UD, trees, markup	anakuz, fotonzade
Code	Improve apertium-tagger's man page	The man page for apertium-tagger is outdted, not mentioning some options the --help command does, like -x. They should be synced. See https://github.com/apertium/apertium/issues/10	C++	xavivars
Code	Port pragmatic segmenter core code to Python	Pragmatic segmenter (https://github.com/diasks2/pragmatic_segmenter) is a sentence segmenter written in Ruby. The objective of this task is to port the core code to Python.	Python, Ruby	ftyers
Code	Port a language model from pragmatic segmenter to Python	Pragmatic segmenter (https://github.com/diasks2/pragmatic_segmenter) is a sentence segmenter written in Ruby. The objective of this task is to port a given language (e.g. Armenian) to Python.	Python, Ruby	ftyers		21
Code	Write a language model for pragmatic segmenter in Python or Ruby	Pragmatic segmenter (https://github.com/diasks2/pragmatic_segmenter) is a sentence segmenter written in Ruby. The objective of this task is to write a language model for a new language.	Python, Ruby	ftyers		21
Code,Documentation	Write a program to add a dev branch for each of the released language pairs	At the moment Apertium language pairs are generally developed in the master branch. We would like to move to having a dev/master split, but we need to make a new dev branch for each pair, and also write documentation to explain to people to send PRs to dev or commit to dev.	python	ftyers, shardulc
code	Use apertium-init to bootstrap a new language pair	Use the Apertium-init script to bootstrap a new translation pair between two languages which have monolingual modules already in Apertium. To see if a translation pair has already been made, search our repositories on github, and especially ask on IRC. Add 100 common stems to the dictionary. Your submission should be in the form of a repository on github that we can fork to the Apertium organisation.	languages, bootstrap, dictionaries, translators	JNW	yes	25
code	Use apertium-init to bootstrap a new language module	Use the Apertium-init script to bootstrap a new language module that doesn't currently exist in Apertium. To see if a language is available, search our repositories on github, and especially ask on IRC. Add enough stems and morphology to the module so that it analyses and generates at least 100 correct forms. Your submission should be in the form of a repository on github that we can fork to the Apertium organisation. Read more about adding stems...	languages, bootstrap, dictionaries	JNW	yes	25
code	Add a transfer rule to an existing translation pair	Add a transfer rule to an existing translation pair that fixes an error in translation. Document the rule on the Apertium wiki by adding a regression tests page similar to English_and_Portuguese/Regression_tests or Icelandic_and_English/Regression_tests. Check your code into Apertium's codebase. Read more...	languages, bootstrap, transfer	JNW, mlforcada		25	5
code	Write 10 lexical selection to an existing translation pair	Add 10 lexical selection rules to an existing translation pair. Submit your work as a github pull request to that pair. Read more...	languages, bootstrap, lexical selection, translators	JNW		25	5
code	Write 10 constraint grammar rules for an existing language module	Add 10 constraint grammar rules to an existing language that you know. Submit your work as a github pull request to that pair. Read more...	languages, bootstrap, constraint grammar	JNW		25	5

Mentors

Mentor	Languages
ftyers	eng, spa, cat, fra, nor, rus, por, swe, tur, gag, aze
JNW	eng, spa, fra, rus, tur, gag, aze, kaz, kir, tat, bak, kum, nog, kaa, uzb, uig, crh, khk, yid
anakuz	grn, spa, por, rus
fotonzade	eng, tur, aze, uig, tat, crh, kmr, ckb, fas
xavivars	cat, spa, eng, fra
unhammer	nno, nob, swe, dan, fao, sme, ovd
shardulc	eng, fra, mar, hin, urd, kan
m-alpha	eng, fra, byv

Counts

Last updated by Sushain (talk) 19:22, 15 September 2018 (CEST).

Category	Count
code	35
documentation	5
research	10
quality	10
design	5
Total	53