Ces-Rus/Workplan

Timeline

Week	Dates	Objective	Measures/targets	Comments
0	now - 30/05	Template:Strikthrough	Create a text corpus for various testing phases and progress measurements: 8 Basic(200 words), 4 each for each category (Wikipedia, News, chat/blogs/forums)(300 words), 6 advanced(500 words) Improve bidix size to 45% clean in testvoc for all categories	This will involve primarily preparing materials for working on the translator. Also, despite already having a solid foundation in Czech grammar, I would still like to improve upon it before I begin.
1	30/05 - 04/06	Work on expanding the bilingual dictionary, and monolingual dictionaries where necessary. Create a new tagger for Czech. Test tagger.	Improve bidix size to 60% clean in testvoc for all categories Improve bidix covrage 50% Achieve a WER < 20% for 1 basic text	The bilingual dictionary has a paucity of entries at the moment. On top of this, Apertium needs a new POS-tagger for Czech, which in its current state leads to unnecessary translation errors.
2	05/06 - 11/06	Continue to expand bil-dictionary where needed(constant task), and work on lexical selection. Work on rudimentary transfer rules, as well as begin on transfer rules for verbs.	Improve bidix size to 80% clean in testvoc for all categories Improve bidix coverage to 60% Achieve a WER < 20% for 2 basic texts	The expansion of the bil-dictionary and lexical selection is obviously going to be an ongoing task, as it is responsible for a majority of errors at the moment.
3	12/06 - 18/06	Continue work on transfer rules for verbs.	Improve bidix size to 100% clean in testvoc for all categories Improve bidix coverage to 65% Achieve a WER < 15% for 2 basic texts	As far as transfer rules, here it will be important to focus on the transfer of grammatical tags, and specifically on the treatment of reflexive verb transfer(i.e. verbs which are reflexive in Czech, but not in Russian). This could potentially be solved with a specific tag in the dictionary.
4	19/06 - 25/06	Work on specific transfer rules for prepositions and subject addition/placement. Create rules for ancillary Russian cases in the mono-dictionary (2nd prepositional(locative), partitive, ect.).	Improve bidix Coverage to 70% Achieve a WER < 10% on 2 basic texts	Prepositions often have multiple possible translations. The subject is less mandatory in Czech than in Russian. The cases, while a minor part, provide more fluency to translations.
5	26/06 - 02/07	Write Dictionary entries transfer rules for specific grammatical constructions such as: aby, kdyby, to... ani..., ect. Start/Finish evaluation #1. Checkpoint: Measure progress of the project, and discuss the feasibility of working on Rus -> Ces. Final check on previously composed transfer rules from weeks 3-5. Test on texts, and try to "break" the translator.	Improve bidix coverage to 75% Achieve WER < 10% on 1 basic text Achieve WER < 20% on 1 advanced text	Many common constructions are currently absent in the dictionary and in the transfer rules. Seeing as how there is not a huge amount to cover, at this point I would like to access and discuss possibly working on the Rus -> Ces direction. Because of uncertainty, the following plans will assume continual work on the Ces -> Rus direction.
6	24/07 - 30/07	Add new and fix existing transfer rule issues identified in the previous week. Begin testing on thematic texts.	Improve bidix coverage to 80% Achieve WER < 20% on texts from Wikipedia (4 texts)	This week will be based on evaluations of the translator's grammatical performance as a whole. I will focus solely on improving loopholes in the transfer rules of the translator.
7	03/07 - 09/07	Test the translator in these differing areas. Identify key places for improvement and begin working on them. Compile key terms for each topic.	Achieve WER < 20% on texts from News (4 texts)	It is important to further test the abilities of the translator on certain topics: Academic writing, literature, law, ect., and assess it's capabilities individually in these areas. One of the obvious main goals is coverage, and testing on specific topics can provide insight into deficiencies within the translator both lexical and grammatical. It is pertinent to focus effort on specific areas that will be the most beneficial for potential users.
8	10/07 - 16/07	Work on expanding the dictionaries in previously identified areas. Solve grammatical issues with transfer rules which arise in given thematic areas.	Improve bedix coverage to 85% Achieve WER < 20% on texts from online chat/blogs/forums (4 texts)	After identifying what to work on, this week I will continue to develop the dictionaries with terms common to selected topics. Here I suspect that there will also be room to expand on transfer rules, for overlooked grammatical errors which arise in the testing process.
9	17/07 - 23/07	Test performance increases in the selected topic areas. Ascertain what still needs to be improved. Work on fixes for issues. Start/Finish Evaluation #2	Achieve WER < 15% on texts from all categories	Here I will identify what areas of the dictionary and transfer rules still need to be developed. The changes that need to be implemented will largely rely on the evaluation.
10	31/07 - 06/08	Test the performance of the translator as a whole. Identify problematic areas.	Achieve WER < 15% on 2 advanced texts	Testing begins, and work on finding the key areas of improvement for the translator.
11	07/08 - 13/08	Bug fixes, correcting most problematic areas	Improve bidix coverage to 90% Achieve WER < 10% on 2 advanced texts	This week is devoted to fixing bugs and the key problems and weak points identified in the previous week
12	14/08 - 20/08	Documentation (will try to do this gradually), final testing and bug fixes	Achieve WER < 10% on all previous advanced texts and 1 new advanced texts (6 texts)	Similar to the previous week. The last month is mostly focused on utilising time as efficiently as possible to create a quality finished product.
13	08/21 - 08/29	Work on final evaluations and other bureaucratic necessities.	Done!	Final week. Everything should already be ready.