User:Khannatanmai/Progress

GSoc Progress

Work Plan

Community Bonding Period (May 6 - May 27)

• Understand the Apertium pipeline fully
• Modify and Understand individual files
• Get familiar with the files that I need to modify
• Formalise the problem, limit the scope of anaphora resolution (To Anaphora needed for MT)
• Flowchart of the proposed system
• Write Pseudocode for identifying Salience Factors
• Study the EuroParl corpus and see which anaphors the method will be able to resolve on paper
• Explore Constraint Grammar and use it if it proves to be beneficial

Week 1 (May 27)

• Automatic Annotation of anaphora for evaluation (EuroParl Corpus)
• Implement a preliminary scoring system for antecedent indicators [work for Spanish-English and Catalan-English for now]
• Decide on a definite context window

Week 2 (June 3)

• Implement Basic Anaphora for Possessive Pronouns in C++
• Create a transfer-pattern-like file as a way to mark possible NPs as antecedents.
• Implement transfer rules for Possessive Pronouns
• A basic prototype ready
• TEST the prototype with the pipeline

Week 3 (June 10)

• Implement Basic Anaphora for Reflexive Pronouns (On Verbs) [For Spanish and Catalan]
• Implement Basic Anaphora for Zero Pronouns (On Verbs) [For Spanish and Catalan]
• Implement transfer rules for the above
• TEST the system extensively
• Document the outline

Week 4 (June 17)

• Implement the system to work out all possible antecedents
• Add ability to give antecedents a score
• TEST basic sentences with single antecedents, Test the pipeline
• Test and Evaluate for Possessive, Reflexive, Zero Pronouns in Spa-Eng pair
• Test and Evaluate for Possessive, Reflexive, Zero Pronouns in Cat-Eng pair

Deliverable #1: Anaphora Resolution for single antecedents, with transfer rules [The full pipeline]

Evaluation 1: June 24-28

Week 5 (June 28)

• Implement Antecedent Indicators:
• Implement Code to Identify Boosting Indicators
• Implement Code to Identify Lappin and Leass Indicators (as many as possible)

Week 6 (July 4)

• Code to Identify Impeding Indicators
• Code to Identify Adjective Agreement Antecedent
• Implement transfer rules for agreement in adjectives for Cat-Eng & Spa-Eng
• Code to remember antecedents for a certain window
• Give scores to the antecedent indicators

Week 7 (July 10)

• Implement detection of remaining salience features
• Implement remaining transfer rules for anaphora in pronouns Cat-Eng & Spa-Eng
• Code Salience Indicators & Implement tie breaking systems
• Modify the scoring system based on performance in the pairs
• TEST system with French and Russian.

Week 8 (July 16)

• Implement fallback for anaphora (in case of too many antecedents or not past certainty threshold)
• TEST Scoring System
• TEST and Evaluate current system and produce precision and recall
• TEST and Evaluate Agreement for Adjectives
• TEST system with Turkish and any other required language pairs.
• Document Antecedent Indicators, Scoring System, Fallback for Cat-Eng & Spa-Eng

Deliverable #2: Anaphora Resolution with saliency features detection, scores, and a fallback mechanism

Evaluation 2: July 22-26

Week 9 [OPTIONAL: If current system not producing good enough results]

• Implement Expectation-Maximization Algorithm using monolingual corpus
• Compare with current system
• Test EM Algorithm and the implemented system

Week 9 [NOT OPTIONAL] (July 26)

• Implement code to ignore embedded clauses
• Evaluate increase in detection
• Insert into Apertium pipeline
• Implement code to accept input in chunks and process it

Week 10 (August 1)

• EXTENSIVELY TEST final system
• Test with French, Russian, Turkish, Galician, etc.
• Evaluate and find out which features are language agnostic
• Decide on list of features for agnostic anaphora and for language specific anaphora

Week 11 (August 7)

• Any remaining coding and improving the system
• TEST on multiple pairs and give Evaluation Scores
• TEST for backwards compatibility and ensure it

Week 12 (August 13)

• Wrap up on the final module
• Complete the overall documentation with observations and future prospects

Final Evaluations: August 19-26

Project Completed

NOTE: Week 11 and Week 12 have extra time to deal with unforeseen issues and ideas

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