User:Ragib06
I'm Ragib Ahsan from Bangladesh. I'm currently an undergrad student of Computer Science and Engineering Department in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
I'm willing to participate in Google Summer of Code 2011 with apertium. And I'm interested in adopting the new Bengali-English language pair.
- IRC: ragib
- mail me
Apertium Bengali-English
Currently the morphological analyzer is nearly complete with 68% coverage of wiki. The bilingual dictionary needs a lot of entries and finally the transfer system has only a few rules to work with.
Some example outputs are -
I eat rice -> আমি ধান খাই I love you -> আমি আপনাকে ভালবাসি
You can find a list of tests here
My project goal should be as follows:
- Completing the monolingual dictionary for Bengali upto a wide coverage (at least 80%) of wiki.
- Completing the bilingual dictionary with necessary entries.
- Writing the transfer rules, that will be a challenging part as the two languages are not closely related.
- Finally, performing tetsvocing to ensure release quality
Preparing Myself
I've downloaded and installed the "apertium-bn-en" pack from the apertium incubator. And I'm really excited playing around with it in my system. I've gone through the Apertium New Language Pair HOWTO already. I tried to have a look at the Apertium Official Documentation. It seems really complex. I'm discussing various issues with the prospective mentors Francis Tyers and Abu Zaher. With their help and some exploring on the apertium-bn-en project I've finally prepared my proposal for This years GSoC. You can find it here.
I also found the paper on Bengali Morphological Analyzer[1] quite interesting. And last but not the least I'm trying to solve some of the challenges given on this project. Check here.
Community Bonding Period
The community bonding period started right after the announcement of accepted student proposal on April 25. I had my plans for this period. As mentioned in my work plan I'm exploring the Apertium tool chain to be familiarized with it. I'm regular on the IRC and I'm getting to know the community more closely. In the meantime, I'm working on putting some new bdix entries to reduce the load a bit from the coding phase. I also have a plan to prepare a test case list for testvocing at the end. I'm putting some remarks here and intend to update time to time-
Week 1: April 26 - May 02, 2011
- Familiarizing with using the svn
- After building the bn-en with make tool we need to copy the '*.mode' files from 'modes' directory to the systems installation directory i.e. /usr/share/apertium/modes
- 240 new adjectives added to apertium-bn-en.bn-en.dix
- 147 new nouns added to apertium-bn-en.bn-en.dix
- Planning for generating a test case list
Week 2: May 03 - May 09, 2011
- 156 new nouns added to apertium-bn-en.bn-en.dix
- 100 new adjectives added to apertium-bn-en.bn-en.dix
- Another 100 new adjectives added to apertium-bn-en.bn-en.dix
- Studying the apertium-doc, currently, getting to know the different modules of apertium
- Correcting some minor errors in the previous entries and misplaced lemmas (nouns and adjectives)
- Adding some test cases here
- Added another 138 adjectives to apertium-bn-en.bn-en.dix with some minor corrections
Week 3: May 10 - May 16, 2011
- Studying the apertium-doc, currently, getting to know the different modules of apertium
- 87 new adjectives added to apertium-bn-en.bn-en.dix with minor corrections
- studying the Bengali verbs issues specially those mentioned in the paper on Bengali Morphological Analyzer[1]
Week 4: May 17 - May 22, 2011
- Studying the apertium-bn-en a bit more closely
- Generating some more test cases
Coding Phase
Week 1: May 23 - May 29, 2011
- 44 adjectives added to bidix with some minor corrections
- more adjectives added to bidix
- 67 nouns added to bidix
- 45 nouns added to bidix with some corrections on previous entry
- learning monodix basics
Week 2: May 30 - June 5, 2011
- corrections on previous entries
- some scripts added to /dev/gsoc2011/bidix/adjective & /dev/bidix/gsoc2011/noun
- again corrections based on code review
Week 3: June 6 - June 12, 2011
- corrections based on code review
- tagging adjectives, nouns and proper nouns from frequency list
- checking bengali monodix
Week 4: June 13 - June 19, 2011
- more adjectives added to bidix
- more nouns added to bidix
- added some scripts to automate the task with monodix entries
- added 43 adjectives to apertium-bn-en.bn.dix with associating scripts to "dev/gsoc2011/monodix/adjective"
- added 143 nouns to apertium-bn-en.bn.dix with associating scripts to "dev/gsoc2011/monodix/noun"
- added 87 proper nouns to apertium-bn-en.bn.dix with associating scripts to "dev/gsoc2011/monodix/proper-noun"
- added 26 adjectives to bn.dix
- added 59 proper-nouns to bn.dix
- added 126 nouns to bn.dix
Week 5: June 20 - June 26, 2011
- tagging new raw fresh words
- added 74 new adjectives to bn.dix
- added 132 new proper nouns to bn.dix
- added 198 new nouns to bn.dix
- added 104 adjectives to bn.dix
- added 125 proper nouns to bn.dix
- wiki frequency list added
- added 25 adjectives to bn.dix
- added 71 nouns to bn.dix
- added 20 proper-nouns to bn.dix
Week 6: June 27 - July 03, 2011
- added 42 adjectives to bn.dix
- added 13 adverbs to bn.dix
- added 31 proper-nouns to bn.dix
- added 127 nouns to bn.dix
- added 44 adjectives and 7 adverbs to bn.dix
- added 111 nouns and 58 proper nouns to bn.dix
- added 45 adjectives and 3 adverbs
- added 113 nouns and 56 porper nouns
- added 56 adjectives and 3 adverbs
- added 118 nouns and 64 porper nouns
- added 75 adjectives to bn.dix
- added 85 proper-nouns to bn.dix
- added 125 nouns to bn.dix
- added 78 adjectives and 94 proper-nouns to bn.dix
- added 160 nouns to bn.dix
- added '-টি' inflections to some noun paradigms
- added 88 adjectives and 8 adverbs to bn.dix
- added 93 proper-nouns and 152 nouns to bn.dix
Week 7: July 04 - July 10, 2011
- added 54 adjectives and 6 adverbs to bn.dix
- added 114 nouns and 62 proper-nouns to bn.dix
- added 381 nouns to bidix
- added 402 nouns to bidix
- added 446 nouns to bidix
- added 202 adjectives to bidix
- added 178 adjectives to bidix
- added 211 adjectives to bidix
- added 473 proper-nouns to bidix
- added 488 proper-nouns to bidix
- added 542 proper-nouns to bidix
Week 8: July 11 - July 17, 2011
- studying the verbs
- studying the transfer system
