User:Chy

Moffassal Hossain Proposal for Google summer of code.

Name: Moffassal Hossain

Email address: moffassal@gmail.com

Education: IT and Communication Technology

Other information that may be useful for contact: Phone - Mobile: +4550140762 IRC : chy@irc.freenode.com

Why is it you are interested in machine translation?:

The advancement in Information technology makes the term globalization became reality. Today informations are traveling across the continent. People are communicating all over the world, but we are still enforced to limit our knowledge due to localization issues. We use different language,characters to express our selves in day to day life. To tackle these issues machine translation can be an interface between languages. A fully functional machine translator which can process natural languages, can improve the productivity of the application, specially on software localization and reduce linguistic barrier. This context makes me enthusiastic about building tools and resources for Machine Translation system which is needed in a great extend now a days. Due to open source, I found Apertium is a great tool to be part of machine translation development.

Why is it that you are interested in the Apertium project?:

First of all Apertium is an open source project, as a student point of view it is a good way to start working with a professional software, I could easily get support from the community. Secondly I have close contact with mentors especially Jacob Nordfalk who is a Teacher of my university for the proposed project, It would be easier for me to communicate and discuss the project during the development. Thirdly I am experience in Java programming, and last and foremost I am interested on learning linguistic data processing where Apertium is great application to start with.

Which of the published tasks are you interested in? : Porting Java for Apertium Runtime: I am intersted in porting Java port for Apertium runtime, since Java is an platform independent language and it makes application portable. Most of the C plus plus code is already ported but there are still needed to finish porting rest of the files, for example interchunk.cc postchunk.cc, piping, formating and complete the tagger. After finished porting those file, I would like to port Apertium to mobile platform, since now a days smart phones are getting more and more powerful, and their increased data processing capacity makes it a good candidate platform to introduce Apertium.

What do you plan to do?:

Fix tagger part of java. Port Inter_chunk and Post_chunk from C plus plus to Java. Formatting Piping Port Apertium into mobile platform.

Why should Google and Apertium sponsor you? and how and who will it benefit in society?:

Having fully functional Apertium Java version will reduce the platform dependency and easy installation. Besides having Apertium on mobile platform, Apertium will reach to mass population. This project will play an important rule for Apertium project.

Work plan: April : Study the existing code. Prepare some documentation about the project. Read existing documentation. May: Complete the porting C plus plus code to Java. Test completed Java version Apertium. Make documentation. June: Start working for porting Apertium into mobile platform. July-August: Finish coding and do extensive test and Document the work.

List of qualifications and experience:

I had completed a two years Academic Professional degree at IT and Communication Technology from TEC Copenhagen. Currently I am studying at fifth semester in IT and Communication Technology at Copenhagen university college of engineering.

During my study, I have studied various programming languages such as Java/C/C++. Data bases, Data mining,Data structure and Algorithm, Distributed system, Embedded system(Linux), web application,Network protocol,Network security, Operating System(Linux).

I have worked with several project using Java programming language during my semesters, which makes me confident enough to work with this project.

Though this is my first time I am applying for an open source project, I believe my determination, knowledge and passion to work with an open source project will help me to accomplished the proposed project. Besides it is also possible to get help from the community which makes it realistic to complete this project.

Any other activity than Summer-of-Code:

Due to credit from my previous education, I am having only two optional courses where I used to have four courses and a big project, having needed less time in my school ensures me to work with this project uninterruptedly.