List of Apertium mentors

We know that some people might be interested in working on Apertium, but not know where to start. We have lots of documentation, but sometimes what you really want to do is sit down and have a chat and ask questions with someone who knows a lot about the project. You might want to tell them what your skills are, what you think you are good at, and ask if they have any ideas for how you might get started. That's where Apertium mentors come in!

If you decide to contact one of our mentors, the best way would be either on IRC, or by emailing them. Each mentor has a link next to their name that allows you to write them an email (but you'll need an account on the Wiki first!).

Each of our mentors has a list of languages which they speak (in bold) and which they understand, so you can communicate in the language which you prefer.

Mentor profiles

Photo	Name	IRC nick	Language(s)	Interests	Bio
	Francis Morton Tyers (wiki · email)	spectie, spectei, spectre	english, castellano, català, português, français, русский	Under-resourced, regional, and marginalised languages.	I'm a postdoc at UiT Norgga árktalaš universtehta. Apart from machine translation, I'm interested in rule-based approaches to morphological analysis and disambiguation, dependency grammars and lexical selection.
	Kevin Brubeck Unhammer (wiki · email)	unhammer, unhammerd, rehammer	norsk, english, deutsch, nederlands	Rule-based NLP, marginalised languages.	I've worked mostly on Norwegian and Sámi language pairs in Apertium, as well as Constraint Grammar disambiguation, but take an interest in pretty much anything related to natural language text processing.
	Jonathan North Washington (wiki · email)	firespeaker, jonorthwash, kd5cfx	english, қазақша, кыргызча, русский, татарча, ўзбекча/o'zbekcha, türkçe, халха/монгол, français, español	Phonetics/phonology, language documentation, Turkic languages	I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University. I work mainly on phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics, and language documentation, and am most interested in Turkic languages. My relevant strengths are in developing computational morphologies and phonologies using lexc and twol.
	Jacob Nordfalk (wiki · email)	jacobEo	dansk, esperanto, norsk, english, svenska, deutsch, nepali	java, mobile computing, esperanto	I am an associate professor in computer science. I've worked mostly on the Esperanto-English and a little on Swedish-Danish pairs in Apertium, as well as the core code (lttoolbox-java), Android, dixtools.
	Gianluca Grossi (wiki)	zfe	italiano, american, türkçe english	mobile computing, modern Anatolian Turkish, Italian, Latin	I am teaching Italian in Istanbul. I've worked mostly on Turkish (see turmorph). Interested in potential uses of apertium on iOS platform, dictionaries fetishist.
	Mikel L. Forcada (wiki · email)	mlforcada	euskara, català. español, english, português, français, italiano, hrvatsko-bosansko-srpski; esperanto, interlingua	finite-state theory, machine translation and computer-aided translation	Professor of Computer Science at the Universitat d'Alacant (Spain).
	Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz (wiki · email)	japerez	català, español, english	machine translation, computer-aided translation, web interfaces for machine translation	Associate professor of Computer Science at the Universitat d'Alacant (Spain).
	Trond Trosterud (wiki · email)	ttr000	norsk, suomi, english deutsch, ...	morphological analysis, machine translation, minority languages	Linguist (Norway).
	Fulup Jakez (wiki · email)	no account	Breton, French, Spanish English, some Namtrik, Welsh, Basque & Catalan...	machine translation, lexicography, minority languages, language policy	Director of a language planning body (Brittany).
	Bernard Chardonneau (wiki · email)	bech But not used to use IRC	Français, English, un poco español, gramatiko Esperanto	Having texts translated in a maximum number of languages to make them accessible to the maximum number of people. Working on translation from and into French.	Teacher in a secondary school (numeric information systems), also writing personal free software and using translators to diffuse them in different languages.
	Xavi Ivars (wiki · email)	xavivars	català (or valencià, I don't care about the name) español, English, un peu de français	Catalan resources, under-resourced languages, NLP tools	Software engineer, some background on NLP tools
	Youssef Oualmakran (wiki · email)	youssef	Français, Español, English, Català, Neederlands, a bit of German, Arabic and much less of some other languages	Interested in Maltese, Arabic and a few other languages	Degree in translation and in power engineering