Ces-Rus/Workplan

Timeline

Week	Dates	Objective	Measures/targets	Target Completion
0	now - 30/05	Find resources for improving the bilingual dictionary. Work on expanding the bil-Dictionary's coverage. Study Czech grammar. Write Bash scripts for easy alteration, compiling, and measurement. Parse UD-Czech (Script already exists)	* Create a text corpus for various testing phases and progress measurements: 8 Basic(200 words), 4 each for each category (Wikipedia, News, chat/blogs/forums)(300 words), 6 advanced(500 words) Improve bidix size to 45% clean in testvoc for all categories
1	30/05 - 04/06	Work on expanding the bilingual dictionary, and monolingual dictionaries where necessary. Create a new tagger for Czech. Test tagger.	*Improve bidix size to 60% clean in testvoc for all categories Improve bidix covrage 50% Achieve a WER < 20% for 1 basic text
2	05/06 - 11/06	Continue to expand bil-dictionary where needed(constant task), and work on lexical selection. Work on rudimentary transfer rules, as well as begin on transfer rules for verbs.	Improve bidix size to 80% clean in testvoc for all categories Improve bidix coverage to 60% Achieve a WER < 20% for 2 basic texts
3	12/06 - 18/06	Continue work on transfer rules for verbs.	Improve bidix size to 100% clean in testvoc for all categories Improve bidix coverage to 65% Achieve a WER < 15% for 2 basic texts
4	19/06 - 25/06	Work on specific transfer rules for prepositions and subject addition/placement. Create rules for ancillary Russian cases in the mono-dictionary (2nd prepositional(locative), partitive, ect.).	Improve bidix Coverage to 70% Achieve a WER < 10% on 2 basic texts
5	26/06 - 02/07	Write Dictionary entries transfer rules for specific grammatical constructions such as: aby, kdyby, to... ani..., ect. Start/Finish evaluation #1. Checkpoint: Measure progress of the project, and discuss the feasibility of working on Rus -> Ces. Final check on previously composed transfer rules from weeks 3-5. Test on texts, and try to "break" the translator.	Improve bidix coverage to 75% Achieve WER < 10% on 1 basic text Achieve WER < 20% on 1 advanced text
6	24/07 - 30/07	Add new and fix existing transfer rule issues identified in the previous week. Begin testing on thematic texts.	Improve bidix coverage to 80% Achieve WER < 20% on texts from Wikipedia (4 texts)
7	03/07 - 09/07	Test the translator in these differing areas. Identify key places for improvement and begin working on them. Compile key terms for each topic.	Achieve WER < 20% on texts from News (4 texts)
8	10/07 - 16/07	Work on expanding the dictionaries in previously identified areas. Solve grammatical issues with transfer rules which arise in given thematic areas.	Improve bedix coverage to 85% Achieve WER < 20% on texts from online chat/blogs/forums (4 texts)
9	17/07 - 23/07	Test performance increases in the selected topic areas. Ascertain what still needs to be improved. Work on fixes for issues. Start/Finish Evaluation #2	Achieve WER < 15% on texts from all categories
10	31/07 - 06/08	Test the performance of the translator as a whole. Identify problematic areas.	Achieve WER < 15% on 2 advanced texts
11	07/08 - 13/08	Bug fixes, correcting most problematic areas	Improve bidix coverage to 90% Achieve WER < 10% on 2 advanced texts
12	14/08 - 20/08	Documentation (will try to do this gradually), final testing and bug fixes	Achieve WER < 10% on all previous advanced texts and 1 new advanced texts (6 texts)
13	08/21 - 08/29	Work on final evaluations and other bureaucratic necessities.	Done!