| Week
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Dates
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Objective
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Measures/targets
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Target Completion
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| 0
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now - 30/05
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Find resources for improving the bilingual dictionary. Work on expanding the bil-Dictionary's coverage. Study Czech grammar. Write Bash scripts for easy alteration, compiling, and measurement. Parse UD-Czech (Script already exists)
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* 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
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| 1
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30/05 - 04/06
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Work on expanding the bilingual dictionary, and monolingual dictionaries where necessary. Create a new tagger for Czech. Test tagger.
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*Improve bidix size to 60% clean in testvoc for all categories
- Improve bidix covrage 50%
Achieve a WER < 20% for 1 basic text
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| 2
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05/06 - 11/06
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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.
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- Improve bidix size to 80% clean in testvoc for all categories
- Improve bidix coverage to 60%
- Achieve a WER < 20% for 2 basic texts
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| 3
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12/06 - 18/06
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Continue work on transfer rules for verbs.
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- Improve bidix size to 100% clean in testvoc for all categories
- Improve bidix coverage to 65%
- Achieve a WER < 15% for 2 basic texts
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| 4
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19/06 - 25/06
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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.).
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- Improve bidix Coverage to 70%
- Achieve a WER < 10% on 2 basic texts
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| 5
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26/06 - 02/07
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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.
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- Improve bidix coverage to 75%
- Achieve WER < 10% on 1 basic text
- Achieve WER < 20% on 1 advanced text
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| 6
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24/07 - 30/07
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Add new and fix existing transfer rule issues identified in the previous week. Begin testing on thematic texts.
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- Improve bidix coverage to 80%
- Achieve WER < 20% on texts from Wikipedia (4 texts)
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| 7
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03/07 - 09/07
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Test the translator in these differing areas. Identify key places for improvement and begin working on them. Compile key terms for each topic.
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- Achieve WER < 20% on texts from News (4 texts)
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| 8
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10/07 - 16/07
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Work on expanding the dictionaries in previously identified areas. Solve grammatical issues with transfer rules which arise in given thematic areas.
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- Improve bedix coverage to 85%
- Achieve WER < 20% on texts from online chat/blogs/forums (4 texts)
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| 9
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17/07 - 23/07
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Test performance increases in the selected topic areas. Ascertain what still needs to be improved. Work on fixes for issues. Start/Finish Evaluation #2
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- Achieve WER < 15% on texts from all categories
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| 10
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31/07 - 06/08
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Test the performance of the translator as a whole. Identify problematic areas.
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- Achieve WER < 15% on 2 advanced texts
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| 11
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07/08 - 13/08
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Bug fixes, correcting most problematic areas
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- Improve bidix coverage to 90%
- Achieve WER < 10% on 2 advanced texts
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| 12
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14/08 - 20/08
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Documentation (will try to do this gradually), final testing and bug fixes
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- Achieve WER < 10% on all previous advanced texts and 1 new advanced texts (6 texts)
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| 13
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08/21 - 08/29
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Work on final evaluations and other bureaucratic necessities.
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Done!
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