User:Kiara/GSoC'16 Proposal

Name: Kira Droganova

E-mail address: kira.droganova@gmail.com

Other information that may be useful to contact you: #apertium IRC channel: Kira (Kiara)

Why is it you are interested in machine translation?

I'm getting my Master's degree in Computational Linguistics in Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and I think that Machine translation is one of the most complex areas of computational linguistics. And at the same time it is one of the most practical tools. I like these features of machine translation. People really need MT tools in different areas of life and it means that the tools have to have a high quality.

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

I like the idea of Apertium. It is great that anyone has a chance to take part in this project. At first, It seems that it is impossible to start working in machine translation without any experience in this area. However, Apertium is greatly documented and the team always helps new people. Both things are very important to graduates and people who had just started to work in machine translation.

One of the greatest features is the ease of adaption of a new language pair. In my opinion, it is an extremely important feature of this project and I also like the idea of general rules for closely related languages.

Which of the published tasks are you interested in? What do you plan to do?

I'm interested in Apertium website improvements tasks. I think, I can do all tasks, which are placed at the ides for GSoC page/ Apertium website improvements. However, it partly depends on the readiness of the back-end functionality. I think I can do both. Please, see the schedule details in my proposal.

Apertium website improvements

New features provide benefits both to Apertium users and Apertium team.

Apertium website users will get the improved tool which provides a new dictionary lookup mode which is the second important feature after translation itself.

The feedback feature is important to Apertium team. Apertium team will be able to know more about Apertium from users and the tool obtains more testing from people who don't have technical background.

Both the feedback page and reliability visualization