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| + | Marina Kustova<br /> |
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| + | marinakoustova@gmail.com<br /> |
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| + | Github, SourceForge, IRC: edgeandpearl<br /> |
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| + | Moscow (GMT+3)<br /> |
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| + | ==Why is it you are interested in machine translation? == |
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| + | I am now finishing my bachelor’s degree in theoretical and computational linguistics at HSE, Moscow. Though most of my study was about the former aspect of the specialization, I am very interested in the latter as well. Machine translation appears to me, on the one hand, an exciting topic for research and, on the other hand, a very useful and perspective line of work. |
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| + | ==Why is it that you are interested in Apertium?== |
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| + | I first learned about Apertium from a friend of mine, who participated in GSoC last year. Even though I haven’t worked with rule-based machine translation before, I was fascinated by the possibility of contributing to a project like that.<br /> |
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| + | What impresses me most is that Apertium works with minority languages. Apart from that, the mechanism of rule-based machine translation implies that, when adopting a language pair, one has to deal with language structure. As a linguist, these factors make me extremely interested in working for Apertium. |
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| + | ==Which of the published tasks are you interested in? == |
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| + | Adopting Faroese -> Norwegian (Bokmål) pair. |
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| + | ==Why Google and Apertium should sponsor it?== |
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| + | As a result of my work, a free open source Faroese-Norwegian translator will be brought into existence. It is going to be the first machine translation system for these two languages ever. |
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| + | ==Work plan== |
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| + | ===Post-application period:=== |
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| + | * diving into Apertium documentation and manuals,<br /> |
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| + | * improving my knowledge of Faroese and Norwegian,<br /> |
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| + | * working on the coding challenge.<br /> |
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| + | ===Community bonding period:=== |
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| + | * exploring and evaluating the available resources for Faroese. |
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| + | ===Work period:=== |
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| + | /will be possible to write in detail after getting done with the coding challenge and learning more about the field of work/ |
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| + | ==Skills and qualifications== |
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| + | By summer 2017 I will have graduated with a bachelor’s degree of theoretical and applied linguistics at NRU HSE, Moscow.<br /> |
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| + | Languages: Russian (native), English (advanced), French (intermediate), Mandarin (elementary), Norwegian Bokmål (elementary).<br /> |
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| + | Programming skills: Python, R, bash.<br /> |
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| + | Other computer skills: HTML+CSS.<br /> |
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| + | ==Non-GSoC summer plans== |
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| + | I’m defending my thesis in June, so in the very first week I will probably be unable to spend more than 10-15 hours on the task.<br /> |
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| + | I’m also going to go visit some friends of mine in late June or July, right after the first or the second evaluation. That week I will probably work for about 20-25 hours.<br /> |
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| + | For the rest of the time, I plan to work full-time, up to 50 hours a week.<br /> |
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Revision as of 18:02, 15 March 2017
Contents
Contacts
Marina Kustova
marinakoustova@gmail.com
Github, SourceForge, IRC: edgeandpearl
Moscow (GMT+3)
Why is it you are interested in machine translation?
I am now finishing my bachelor’s degree in theoretical and computational linguistics at HSE, Moscow. Though most of my study was about the former aspect of the specialization, I am very interested in the latter as well. Machine translation appears to me, on the one hand, an exciting topic for research and, on the other hand, a very useful and perspective line of work.
Why is it that you are interested in Apertium?
I first learned about Apertium from a friend of mine, who participated in GSoC last year. Even though I haven’t worked with rule-based machine translation before, I was fascinated by the possibility of contributing to a project like that.
What impresses me most is that Apertium works with minority languages. Apart from that, the mechanism of rule-based machine translation implies that, when adopting a language pair, one has to deal with language structure. As a linguist, these factors make me extremely interested in working for Apertium.
Which of the published tasks are you interested in?
Adopting Faroese -> Norwegian (Bokmål) pair.
Why Google and Apertium should sponsor it?
As a result of my work, a free open source Faroese-Norwegian translator will be brought into existence. It is going to be the first machine translation system for these two languages ever.
Work plan
Post-application period:
- diving into Apertium documentation and manuals,
- improving my knowledge of Faroese and Norwegian,
- working on the coding challenge.
Community bonding period:
- exploring and evaluating the available resources for Faroese.
Work period:
/will be possible to write in detail after getting done with the coding challenge and learning more about the field of work/
Skills and qualifications
By summer 2017 I will have graduated with a bachelor’s degree of theoretical and applied linguistics at NRU HSE, Moscow.
Languages: Russian (native), English (advanced), French (intermediate), Mandarin (elementary), Norwegian Bokmål (elementary).
Programming skills: Python, R, bash.
Other computer skills: HTML+CSS.
Non-GSoC summer plans
I’m defending my thesis in June, so in the very first week I will probably be unable to spend more than 10-15 hours on the task.
I’m also going to go visit some friends of mine in late June or July, right after the first or the second evaluation. That week I will probably work for about 20-25 hours.
For the rest of the time, I plan to work full-time, up to 50 hours a week.
