Task ideas for Google Code-in
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This is the task ideas page for Google Code-in, here you can find ideas on interesting tasks that will improve your knowledge of Apertium and help you get into the world of open-source development.
The people column lists people who you should get in contact with to request further information. All tasks are 2 hours maximum estimated amount of time that would be spent on the task by an experienced developer, however:
- this does not include time taken to install / set up apertium.
- this is the time expected to take by an experienced developer, you may find that you spend more time on the task because of the learning curve.
Categories:
- code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
- documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
- research: Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketting, or studying problems and recommending solutions
- quality: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.
- interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
You can find descriptions of some of the mentors here: List_of_Apertium_mentors.
Task ideas
- Fix a memory leak in matxin-transfer
- Tag text in Apertium format
- Convert Chukchi lexicon to HFST/lexc
- Nouns
- Numerals
- Adjectives
- Make a (web) viewer for parallel treebanks (also for viewing diff annotation for same sentence)
- Write a script to convert a UD treebank for a given language to a format suitable for training the perceptron tagger
- Train the perceptron tagger for a language
- Design an annotation tool for disambiguation
- Design an annotation tool for adding dependencies
- Train lexical selection rules from a large parallel corpus for a language pair
- Document how to set up the experiments for weighted transfer rules
- apertium-hun:
- hunmorph.db conversions
- additional morphology
- stuff
- suggest a word feature to web translator:
- user managements
- saving data
- deploy it to apertium.org? If it's already exisitng somewhere in githubs, maybe also to merge
- merge Kira's contributions more generally
- convert UD treebank to apertium tags, use unigram tagger (see #apertium logs 2016-06-22)
- convert http://youssefsan.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Wolof to apertium-style documentation
- implement `lt-print --strings` lt-print -s
- Use d3 globe to make an apertium language/pair viewer (like pairviewer), maybe based on this or this or this.
- make a thing to detect contexts where a path in a compiled transducer begins with a whitespace
- make the lt-comp compiler print a warning when a path begins with a whitespace.
- apertium-mar:
- more consistency with apertium-hin for verbs
- replace cases with postpositions
- fix modals and quasi-modals
- apertium-mar-hin: make the SL morph for any part of speech less daft
- add other indic scripts/formal latin transliterations to the currently-just-WX transliterator