Difference between revisions of "User:N0nick/GSoC Journal"

Revision as of 18:26, 7 May 2011

Got the development environment ready. apertium, lttoolbox and other tools and tests all working properly.
Filled the Pending Tests page with some translations (based on the ones in the mt-en page).
Started working on a script to generate a Maltese monodix from external sources. Nothing to show yet.
- Some Maltese newspapers (suggested by spectie): [1] [2] [3] [4]
- In the chatroom, User:zfe noticed the Bitextor project. Might be useful, started experimenting with it tonight.
Notified 2 TAU professors (both specializing in CL) about my project, both agreed to offer help if necessary.
Wrote to a contact related to the MaltiLex project, looking for better contact (perhaps through my university's faculty).

Loaned and started reading the Teach Yourself Maltese grammar book.
Wrote the framework for a script that generates fullform Maltese verb lists. [5]
- We worked on splitting verbs into categorizes and optional subclasses, writing rules (based on stem affixes, roots and vowels) in a python script for each class.
- Found out about the way [Wiktionary] stores conjugation data about the verbs it has; very useful for creating new rule groups. [6]. I'll continue converting these tables this week.
fran contacted Prof. Adam Ussishkin and he provided us with Maltese verb lists that we need to look over.
Will add the verbs already added to the Hebrew and bidi dix files.

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 * Notified 2 TAU professors (both specializing in CL) about my project, both agreed to offer help if necessary.
 * Wrote to a contact related to the [http://staff.um.edu.mt/mros1/maltilex/ MaltiLex project], looking for better contact (perhaps through my university's faculty).
+==Bonding Period week 2: 5/2 - 5/9==
+* Loaned and started reading the [http://books.google.com/books?id=iCdjAAAAMAAJ Teach Yourself Maltese] grammar book.
+* Wrote the framework for a script that generates fullform Maltese verb lists. [https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/incubator/apertium-mt-he/dev/mt_verbs]
+** We worked on splitting verbs into categorizes and optional subclasses, writing rules (based on stem affixes, roots and vowels) in a python script for each class.
+** Found out about the way [Wiktionary] stores conjugation data about the verbs it has; very useful for creating new rule groups. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Maltese_conjugation-table_templates]. I'll continue converting these tables this week.
+* [[User:Francis Tyers|fran]] contacted Prof. Adam Ussishkin and he provided us with Maltese verb lists that we need to look over.
+* Will add the verbs already added to the Hebrew and bidi dix files.