User:Helioh2
GSoC Application (not complete yet)[edit]
Name: Helio Henrique Lopes Costa Monte Alto
E-mail address: heliohenrique3@gmail.com
About me: I am a Computer Science student at Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Maringá State University), located in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. I am in 4th year (the last year) of my course, and I do undergraduate research project. My research area is related to Intelligent Systems Development, with focus on multi-agent systems and ontologies. Currently, I’m focused on ontologies, which includes ontology languages, such as OWL and RDF.
I’m interested in machine translation because I think it is a growing area and it increasingly needs to be improved. I imagine that, in a not too distant future, people with different native languages will not have trouble in communicating, thanks to translation technologies incorporated into personal devices. I think an open source project aiming at building language tools is an amazing initiative. It allows the software to be continually improved by the community for the benefit of all.
I’m interested in Dictionary induction from wikis, because it would be very useful for automatically building dictionaries for Apertium, and also for myself, because I’m going to be able to acquire more knowledge about ontology queries (RDF queries, for example). Therefore, it will be good for my researches on ontologies.
About my experience: apart from my research, I've worked on some projects from University. I think my main work until now is a software system for the university restaurant of my University, which includes inventory management, menu management and a not fully implemented yet (because of bureaucratic reasons with the University's policy) ticket selling and controlling manager (tickets for consumption in the restaurant, which is currently done manually). With this one, I acquired more experience with Java and MySQL, but I've already worked with C++, PHP, Python, C and Assembly. Recently, I've been exploring multiagents frameworks and ontology frameworks, such as JENA.
Questions about my application[edit]
Basically, I will have to design and implement queries to wikis' databases, extract the useful information from the results and then build dictionaries from these informations, right? Since interpreting page content from wikipedia (and other sources which are not semantically organized) is not a trivial task (I think so), and I'd like to work with ontologies, I was wondering if I could work only with DBpedia.
