Ideas for Google Summer of Code/Improvements in lexical-selection module

Implement a number of optimisations to the lexical selection module. The lexical selection module in Apertium is currently a prototype. There are many optimisations that could be made to make it more efficient and faster, and easier to install and use.

Tasks

• Script/program for finding possibly missing bidix entries from an aligned parallel corpus.
• Do proper processing of tags in all scripts.
• Remove unused and redundant scripts.
• Work on a way to trim non-significant features from the maximum-entropy models.
• more here

Coding challenge

• Install Apertium and the constraint-based lexical selection module
• Run through the Generating lexical-selection rules from a parallel corpus HOWTO for a language pair of your choice.