User:Uliana/gsoc-propuesta

Contacts

Uliana Sentsova

E-mail: uliana.sentsova@gmail.com

Number: +7 (916) 774-95-30

Skype: ulyanasidorova

IRC channel: uliana at #apertium

Education and achievements

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Qualification: Bachelor in Linguistics (romance-german languages)

GPA: 10.0 / 10.0

National Research University „Higher School of Economics“

Qualification: Major in Natural Language Processing

Current GPA: 8.5 / 10.0

2015: Awardee of graduates’ competition „Natural Language Processing” (a competition for students hold by National Research University Higher School of Economics)

2014: Scholarship of Academic Council of MSU for scientific activities (a special award for top 10% students with academic excellence and scientific activity)

2013: Enhanced State Academic Scholarship for scientific activities (is awarded on the basis of academic excellence and scientific achievements)

Projects

„Building Open Source Information Extraction System for Russian Language”

Organisation: National Research University „Higher School of Economics”

Project roles: project manager, software developer (Python)

Description: Creating a hybrid information extraction system using rule-based approach and machine learning technologies. This system is able to extract named entities (persons, locations and organizations) and will become a part of stack technology for NLP developed by National Research University „Higher School of Economics”. At this moment in time the system has 93% precision (evaluated by Dialogue Evaluation Conference on 37 000 annotated texts).

My interest in Apertium projects

I am interested in working on an unreleased language pair for Sicilian-Spanish translation.

As my coding challenge I created a new language package scn-spa, added basic vocabulary to the dictionary of Sicilian and translations into Sicilian-Spanisch dictionary. I am also currently working on

I also started to conduct research in the structure of Sicilian language: I have got into touch with contributors of Wikipedia in Sicilian language and thanks to spectei I also have reached computational linguist who studies in Munich and is native speaker of Sicilian.

Proposal and work plan

Pre-work period

Review and improve on the technical skills required for the project. Study the architecture of Apertium in the detail Extend my knowledge of Standard Sicilian language.

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First month