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Apr 4, 2012, 2:52 PM
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Re: GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools (Oren Bochman) (Amir E. Aharoni)(Gregory Varnum)
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This looks much more in-depth and helpful. I think your best next step is to, if you haven't already, connect with potential mentors and indicate who those folks are within your proposal.
-Greg
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Sent from my iPad. Apologies for any typos. A more detailed response may be sent later.
On Apr 4, 2012, at 10:31 AM, karthik prasad <karthikprasad008 [at] gmail> wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> I am grateful for your valuable feedback and suggestions.
>
> I have updated my proposal based on the inputs given by you. The split-up
> of the deliverables on the ideas page indeed helped me understand the
> requirements more clearly.
>
> The link to my updated proposal is
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Karthikprasad/gsoc2012proposal
>
> I request you and everyone to kindly skim through my proposal once again
> and suggest changes/additions.
> I am very excited about this project and working with you; and truth be
> told, 23rd April seems like ages ahead.
>
> Thanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
> Karthik
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:49:41 +0200
>> From: "Oren Bochman" <orenbochman [at] gmail>
>> To: "'Wikimedia developers'" <wikitech-l [at] lists>
>> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools
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>> You do understand correctly!
>>
>> The main idea about NLP components is with POS tagger as an example:
>>
>> 1. a fall back system that does unsupervised POS tagging.
>> 2. the ability to plug in an existing POS tagger as these become
>> available for specific languages.
>>
>> I would as supervisor would recommend working with 3 languages.
>> English, Hebrew, and the GSOC native language.
>>
>> If we could get QA from other native speakers we would incorporate them
>> into the workflow.
>>
>> I think that by using a deletion/reversion based heuristic we may also be
>> able to make a spam corpus to boost the accuracy of the corpuses.
>>
>>
>> Operation Manager
>> E-mail: oren [at] romai-horizon
>> Mobil: +36 30 866 6706
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wikitech-l-bounces [at] lists [mailto:
>> wikitech-l-bounces [at] lists] On Behalf Of Amir E. Aharoni
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 10:19 PM
>> To: Wikimedia developers
>> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools
>>
>> 2012/4/3 karthik prasad <karthikprasad008 [at] gmail>:
>>> Hello,
>>> I am a GSoC aspirant and have compiled a proposal for one of the
>>> project ideas - Wikipedia Corpus Tools. [Mentor : Oren Bochman] I
>>> would sincerely appreciate if you could kindly go through it and
>>> suggest corrections/additions so that I can settle with a coherent
>> proposal.
>>>
>>> Link to my proposal :
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Karthikprasad/gsoc2012proposal
>>
>> Nice, but why only English?
>>
>> If i understand the proposal correctly, this project is supposed to be
>> able to work with almost any language with very little effort.
>>
>> --
>> Amir Elisha Aharoni ? ?????? ????????? ??????????
>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com ??We're living in pieces, I want to live in
>> peace.? ? T. Moore?
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 12:58:11 +0300
>> From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni [at] mail>
>> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l [at] lists>
>> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools
>> Message-ID:
>> <CACtNa8tS-PifzJS1JsF02k3qW_-7=UK-wDQnVSfLGLufhxnmNw [at] mail
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>> 2012/4/4 Oren Bochman <orenbochman [at] gmail>:
>>> You do understand correctly!
>>>
>>> The main idea about NLP components is with POS tagger as an example:
>>
>> Just to make sure, POS = part of speech, isn't it?
>>
>> It's one of the most confusing TLAs in computing :)
>>
>>> If we could get QA from other native speakers we would incorporate them
>> into the workflow.
>>
>> Good. As long as there is a way to plug other languages and a way for
>> speakers of other languages to contribute QA, i'm very happy.
>>
>> --
>> Amir Elisha Aharoni ? ?????? ????????? ??????????
>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> ??We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.? ? T. Moore?
>>
>
>
> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:28:29 -0400
> From: Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum [at] gmail>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l [at] lists>
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools
> Message-ID: <AC4C429F-A839-4911-BE9B-C8928AA2DD8C [at] gmail>
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>
> Whoops - I meant that email to be directed to Karthik - although Amir
> you're welcome to read it as well. :)
>
> -greg
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum [at] gmail>
> wrote:
>
>> Amir,
>>
>> Thank you for your GSOC proposal! :)
>>
>> Between now and Google's submission deadline on April 6th - you are
> invited to further modify your proposals. The GSOC page on MW.org -
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSOC - and our IRC rooms -
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC
>>
>> Looking over your proposal - I think you've got good background
> information on yourself. However, I think you should flush out more
> details on the proposed project. Without more familiarity with corpus (and
> with no links to find that info) - it's hard for everyone to weigh in
> equally or to make sure your project gets the full consideration you'd like.
>>
>> -greg aka varnent
>>
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni [at] mail>
> wrote:
>>
>>> 2012/4/3 karthik prasad <karthikprasad008 [at] gmail>:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am a GSoC aspirant and have compiled a proposal for one of the project
>>>> ideas - Wikipedia Corpus Tools. [Mentor : Oren Bochman]
>>>> I would sincerely appreciate if you could kindly go through it and
> suggest
>>>> corrections/additions so that I can settle with a coherent proposal.
>>>>
>>>> Link to my proposal :
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Karthikprasad/gsoc2012proposal
>>>
>>> Nice, but why only English?
>>>
>>> If i understand the proposal correctly, this project is supposed to be
>>> able to work with almost any language with very little effort.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Amir Elisha Aharoni ? ?????? ????????? ??????????
>>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>>> ??We're living in pieces,
>>> I want to live in peace.? ? T. Moore?
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Wikitech-l mailing list
>>> Wikitech-l [at] lists
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
>>
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