User:Eiji

Contact Information

   Name:Eiji Miyamoto
   E-mail address:motopon57@gmail.com
   University: University of Manchester
   IRC:thelounge72
   github:https://github.com/yypy22

Why is it that you are interested in Apertium?

   I am intrigued by natural language processing and its usage. Apertium is open-source and free software for machine translation, so apertium match my interest. The community here is welcoming and supportive too.

Which of the published tasks are you interested in?

   Tokenization for spaceless orthographies in Japanese

What do you plan to do?

   Investing the suitable tokenizer for east/south Asian languages without space and implementing it. 

Reasons why Google and Apertium should sponsor it

   Apertium translates European languages into other European languages mainly and my proposal for Google Summer of Code 2023 will open up the possibility 
   for future translation in Asian languages which usually do not have space between words in sentences. 

Work plan

• Phase1

   Week 1: Investigating word segmentation and tokenization from paper, and summarising useful findings into a report
   Week 2: Testing possible algorithms for tokenization and becoming aware of pros and cons of them
   Week 3: Analyzing drawbacks of current tokenization for apertium-iii and apertium-jpn
   Week 4: Producing a hybrid model

• Phase2

   Week 5: Analyzing the model and improving it
   Week 6: Testing the hybrid model
   Week 7: Evaluation of the model
   Week 8: Converting the model into a faster language

• Phase3

   Week 9: Converting the hybrid model into apertium-jpn
   Week 10: Testing and fixing bugs
   Week 11: Continue to test
   Week 12: Finalise GSOC project: Writing report and complete tests

• Project completed