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I provided a lot of the data currently in Apertium for [[Irish to Scottish Gaelic]] machine translation, which was taken from an ad hoc system for this language pair that I created in 2005. I'd be interested in mentoring a GSOC student (or anyone else) to help finish this work.
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I provided a lot of the data currently in Apertium for [[Irish to Scottish Gaelic]] machine translation, which was taken from an ad hoc system for this language pair that I created in 2005. I'd be interested in mentoring a GSOC student (or anyone else) to help finish this work. I'm also working on Irish to Manx Gaelic with help from Phil Kelly.
   
Also, I recently finished some work on statistical diacritic restoration that would make a suitable GSOC project as well; see [http://borel.slu.edu/pub/lre.pdf Statistical Unicodification of African Languages].
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I'm mentoring Dhiraj Lohiya on a project involving statistical diacritic restoration for GSOC 2011; see my paper [http://borel.slu.edu/pub/lre.pdf Statistical Unicodification of African Languages] for more information.
   
 
For about ten years I have been working on developing language technology for under-resourced languages around the world. I've developed corpora and spell checkers for many (20+) languages using a [http://borel.slu.edu/crubadan/ web crawler], statistical methods, and contributions from native speakers. I am primarily interested in the Celtic languages, and particularly Irish. I've created a [http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir/ grammar checker], monolingual and parallel corpora, and a [http://borel.slu.edu/lsg/ semantic network] for Irish, and do a lot of the localization of open source software (Firefox, OpenOffice.org, KDE, ...) Currently I am working on a statistical MT engine that I hope might be useful for Apertium down the road, if I ever manage to finish it!
 
For about ten years I have been working on developing language technology for under-resourced languages around the world. I've developed corpora and spell checkers for many (20+) languages using a [http://borel.slu.edu/crubadan/ web crawler], statistical methods, and contributions from native speakers. I am primarily interested in the Celtic languages, and particularly Irish. I've created a [http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir/ grammar checker], monolingual and parallel corpora, and a [http://borel.slu.edu/lsg/ semantic network] for Irish, and do a lot of the localization of open source software (Firefox, OpenOffice.org, KDE, ...) Currently I am working on a statistical MT engine that I hope might be useful for Apertium down the road, if I ever manage to finish it!
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* [http://borel.slu.edu/ Home page]
 
* [http://borel.slu.edu/ Home page]
 
* [http://borel.slu.edu/nlp.html NLP projects]
 
* [http://borel.slu.edu/nlp.html NLP projects]
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* [http://accentuate.us/ Accentuate.us]
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* [http://indigenoustweets.com/ Indigenous Tweets]
   
 
[[Category:Users|Kevin Scannell]]
 
[[Category:Users|Kevin Scannell]]

Revision as of 01:14, 26 April 2011

I provided a lot of the data currently in Apertium for Irish to Scottish Gaelic machine translation, which was taken from an ad hoc system for this language pair that I created in 2005. I'd be interested in mentoring a GSOC student (or anyone else) to help finish this work. I'm also working on Irish to Manx Gaelic with help from Phil Kelly.

I'm mentoring Dhiraj Lohiya on a project involving statistical diacritic restoration for GSOC 2011; see my paper Statistical Unicodification of African Languages for more information.

For about ten years I have been working on developing language technology for under-resourced languages around the world. I've developed corpora and spell checkers for many (20+) languages using a web crawler, statistical methods, and contributions from native speakers. I am primarily interested in the Celtic languages, and particularly Irish. I've created a grammar checker, monolingual and parallel corpora, and a semantic network for Irish, and do a lot of the localization of open source software (Firefox, OpenOffice.org, KDE, ...) Currently I am working on a statistical MT engine that I hope might be useful for Apertium down the road, if I ever manage to finish it!

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