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

The current task ideas here are for 2019. See Talk:Task ideas for Google Code-in for task ideas from previous years.

type	title	description	tags	mentors	bgnr?	multi?	duplicates
research, quality, documentation	Adopt a Wiki page	Request an Apertium wiki account and adopt a wiki page by updating and fixing any issues with it. Examples of things to update might be documentation that still refers to our SVN repo (we're on GitHub now), documentation of new features, clarification of unclear things, indicating that a page no longer reflects how things are done, or updating documentation to reflect the current options and defaults of various tools.	wiki	*	yes	150
research, code	expand coverage of Kyrgyz to English structural transfer	Find a sentence in Kyrgyz that once the lexical items are added to the bilingual dictionary is not fully (or correctly) parsed by the kir-eng-transfer Apertium mode. Determine what rule(s) need(s) to be added (or fixed) to cover this structure, and update apertium-eng-kir.kir-eng.rtx accordingly. You will first want to clone and compile apertium-eng-kir.	Kyrgyz, English, recursive transfer, pairs	JNW		150	10
code	Add recursive transfer support to a language pair that doesn't support it	Make a branch of an Apertium language pair that doesn't support recursive transfer and call it "recursive transfer". Add vanilla .rtx files for both directions, and modify Makefile.am and modes.xml so that the branch compiles and runs. See this page for instructions on how to do this.	recursive transfer, pairs	JNW	yes	150	10
code	Add 2 recursive transfer rules to a language pair	Add two recursive transfer rules to an Apertium language pair. These rules consist of, at minimum, a syntactic pattern to match, a phrase to combine them into, and an output pattern (more documentation here). If the language pair does not support recursive transfer, make sure to set it up first.	recursive transfer, pairs	JNW		150	20
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	Write 10 lexical selection for 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 module for a language that you know. Submit your work as a github pull request to that pair. Read more...	languages, bootstrap, constraint grammar	JNW		25	5
Research	Syntactic annotation of text	Pick a text of about 200 words and make a syntactic annotation for it according to the Universal Dependencies treebank. UD Annotatrix can be used for visualisation. Consult with your mentor about the language.	UD, trees, annotation	anakuz, fotonzade
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

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