User:Pedromanic/Gsoc2024Proposal

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Contact Information[edit]


Background[edit]

A fourth year computer engineering student at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
Native Language: Portuguese
Other Languages: English (advanced), Spanish (basics)

Skills[edit]

  • C
  • C++
  • xml
  • python
  • linux

Why am I interested in Apertium?[edit]

  • Apertium has an active community, with people to help you when you are in difficulty.
  • Learn and contribute to open-source projects and know how they work.
  • Apertium is a PLN community and I have specialized in this field during my undergraduate studies.

Which of the published tasks am I interested in? What do I plan to do?[edit]

I am interested in the task "Add Capitalization Handling Module to a Language Pair". My goal is to add Capitalization rules to Spanish-Portuguese(es-pt) pair.

Proposal[edit]

Deliverables[edit]

Why should Google and Apertium sponsor it?[edit]

Correct capitalization will improve the experience of millions of people when using MT. This project will contribute to the community, with the potential to use the rules for more language-pairs. For more, once Google sponsor, will contribute to open source development.

How and who will it benefit in society?[edit]

Coding Challenge[edit]

I implemented the modules for extracting and restoring capitalization for the es-pt language pair. The code cand be find here. This program have the capitalization handling module, so sets the first word of a sentence to uppercase.

Work plan[edit]

Community bonding period (May 1 - 26):[edit]

  • Get to know better the tools of Apertium and its community
  • See how capitalization of uppercase letters is currently implemented
  • Learn more about XML tools
  • Identify issues with the current implementation

Work Period (May 27 - August 26)[edit]

Week 1 (May 27 - July 02):

  • Introducing caps-restoration for the language pair es-pt.
  • Understanding better the capitalization rules.

Week 2 (June 03-09):

  • Implementing the existing rules.
  • Adding more rules targeting common scenarios.

Week 3 (June 10-16):

  • Continuing to create new capitalization rules.
  • Beginning to transition capitalization to monolingual modules.

Week 4 (June 17-23):

  • Creating tests.
  • Correcting errors.
  • Updating documentation.
  • Deliverable #1

Week 5 (June 24-30):

Week 6 (July 01-07):

Week 7 (July 12-18):

Week 8 (July 19-25):

  • Deliverable #2

Week 9,10 (July 26 - August 07):

Week 11,12 (August 08 - 19):


Project completed

Other Summer Plans[edit]

I will have final exams in two last weeks of June so i will dedicate my self 10 hours per week. In the rest I can dedicate 30 hours per week. Vacation in July and August so I can devote 40 hours per week .