Re: [Apertium-stuff] How should I start contributing to Apertium

[paridhi k. <par...@gm...>]

But I could learn a language (spoken ) 

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> On 17-Oct-2017, at 03:15, Vinit Ravishankar <vin...@gm...> wrote:
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> English-Hindi is not a good idea for a translation pair for many reasons, an important one being their distance and the fact that both are fairly well resourced languages. Translation pairs between Indian languages are a much better idea, though something like Hindi/Urdu - Farsi (or Kurmanji?) might also be a fun pair.
> 
> – V
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>> On 16 October 2017 at 21:28, Memduh Gokirmak <me...@gm...> wrote:
>> Would you be interested in working on a pair with Hindi and a language that is more or less intelligible to a Hindi speaker? (E.g. Punjabi, Gujarati) You could also work on other Indian languages even if you don't know them fluently, e.g. Marathi->Hindi
>> 
>> India has a lot of underresourced and structurally similar languages so I am sure we could come up with a good pair for you to work on.
>> 
>> Memduh
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>>> On Oct 16, 2017 9:16 PM, "paridhi kothari" <par...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Hey Memduh
>>> I know only Hindi among the Indian languages. I am from the North Indian region near the capital Delhi. People mostly speak Hindi there.
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Memduh Gökırmak <me...@gm...> wrote:
>>>> Hey Paridhi!
>>>> 
>>>> Welcome to Apertium. Bernard already outlined how you could help out,
>>>> but I would like to note that we are more enthusiastic about translation
>>>> between languages that are underresourced and/or closer to each other
>>>> grammatically. Are there any other Indo-Aryan languages you know along
>>>> with Hindustani? Or perhaps Dravidian?
>>>> 
>>>> Memduh
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 15-10-2017 19:15, Bernard Chardonneau wrote:
>>>> >> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 14:01:23 +0530
>>>> >> From: paridhi kothari <par...@gm...>
>>>> >> To: ape...@li...
>>>> >> Reply-To: ape...@li...
>>>> >> Subject: Re: [Apertium-stuff] How should I start contributing to Apertium
>>>> >> Pièce(s) jointes(s) probable(s)>
>>>> >> I am an undergraduate from IIT Guwahati, India and I know Hindi and
>>>> >> English. Could I perhaps help with the translation between these two
>>>> >> languages?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:40 PM, paridhi kothari <par...@gm...>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> Hey
>>>> >>> I want to start contributing to Apertium. I am interested in NLP and
>>>> >>> machine translation. I wanted to know how I could start contributing to it
>>>> >>> at an entry level.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Thank you
>>>> >>>
>>>> > Welcome.
>>>> >
>>>> > A good way to start contributing to Apertium is to contribute to an
>>>> > existing pair.
>>>> >
>>>> > You can see this wiki page :
>>>> > http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Contributing_to_an_existing_pair
>>>> > and more generally, a lot of other pages of the same wiki.
>>>> >
>>>> > So, if you know these two languages, you can work on apertium-eng-hin pair.
>>>> >
>>>> > The most simple for the beginning may be to add words or to correct
>>>> > translations.
>>>> > When you will know better how the system works, it will be possible for
>>>> > you to work on transfer rules.
>>>> >
>>>> >
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