Ideas for Google Summer of Code/Adopt a language pair

This project will involve writing linguistic data, including morphological rules and transfer rules — which are specified in a declarative language. A good intro would be to look through Apertium New Language Pair HOWTO. If the pair has OK dictionaries but a bad tagger (disambiguator), a GsoC project might involve writing a good Constraint Grammar for the pair (although this would likely require more knowledge of and interest in linguistics).

Here are a few links to pages of pairs which are up for adoption:

Closely related:

• Hindi and Urdu
• Scottish Gaelic and Irish
• Iranian Persian and Tajik
• Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian
• Slovenian and Macedonian
• Czech and Slovenian
• Faroese and Icelandic
• Breton and Welsh

Not closely related:

• Afrikaans to English
• Bengali and English
• Breton and English
• Dhivehi and English
• French and Esperanto
• Haitian Creole and English

If you find a pair in the Incubator in SVN, feel free to write up its status on a page on the Wiki and add it here.

And pairs which were adopted in past years:

• 2010
  • Macedonian and Bulgarian
  • French and Portuguese
  • North Sámi and Finnish
  • Afrikaans and Dutch (GCI)
• 2009
  • Swedish and Danish - new adopter needed
  • Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål