User:Aha/GsocApplication

Name

Joanna Ruth

Contact information

E-mail: joannaruth1@gmail.com
Skype: joanna_ruth
IRC: Aha_

Work plan

Some work has already been done for the Polish-Czech language pair. I consulted with Jimmy O'Regan about the Polish monodix and found out that inflection rules are already covered and I should focus mainly on expanding the vocabulary.

I intend to use IPI PAN "Frequency dictionary of contemporary Polish" as a source of Polish hand-tagged training corpora (around 500 000 words). It needs though to be converted to the format used by the apertium-tagger before carrying out supervised tagger training. The morphological data might be retrieved from Morfologik (morphological dictionary of Polish) and Morfo (Czech morphological analyser)

Community Bonding Period

• set up work environment (installation and configuration)
• study Polish and Chech language rules thoroughly
• check what has already been done (study monodices from Czech-Slovenian and Polish-English language pairs)
• prepare a detailed list of morphological rules that are missing
• get monolingual and multilingual aligned corpora for further analysis (possibly from JRC Acquis)
• prepare a list of words sorted by frequency of occurance for both dictionaries (to acquire at least 80% coverage)
• learn to use dictionaries and tools (dixtools package, apertium-viewer, poliqarp) in practise

Week1

• write test scripts (make use of the existing language-pair regression and corpus tests)
• add the missing close-class words (pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, numbers, modal verbs and the like) to the dictionaries

Week2

• work on Polish monodix; add open-class words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) according to the frequency list

Week3

• work on Czech monodix; add open-class words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) according to the frequency list

Week4

• add other words that are left

Deliverable1: desirable coverage acquired for both languages

Week5

• gather translational data with the use of parallel corpora
• add basic transfer rules for the purpose of testing, verify the tag definition files
• work on bilingual dictionary

Week6

• work further on bilingual dictionary

Week7

• prepare a list of word sequences that frequently appear together for both Polish and Czech (perhaps use frequent sets)
• add multiwords with traslations to the dictionaries

Week8

• bring the dictionaries to a consistent state (successful vocabulary tests)

Deliverable2: Bilingual dictionary completed

Week9

• obtain hand-tagged training corpora
• study the word order rules of Czech and Polish
• work on tag definition files
• carry out supervised tagger training (with retraining on untagged text corpora) for both languages

Week10

• work on transfer rules

Week11

• carry out thorough regression tests
• check dictionaries manually to spot possible errors

Week12

• clean up, evaluation of results

Project completed