Apertium in the Google Summer of Code: students wanted

[CS Department]

The Google Summer of Code^TM 2010

The Apertium free/open-source machine translation platform (http://www.apertium.org) has been selected for the second year as one of the 153 projects in the 2010 edition of the Google Summer of Code.

The Apertium project develops a free/open-source platform for machine translation and language technology. We try and focus our efforts on lesser-resourced and marginalised languages, but also work with larger languages. The platform, including data for a large number of language pairs, a translation engine and auxiliary tools is being developed around the world, largely in universities (mainly the Universitat d`Alacant, http://www.ua.es) and companies (e.g. Prompsit Language Engineering, http://www.prompsit.com), but also independent
free-software developers play a huge role. There are currently 23
published language pairs within the project (including a number of "firsts" - for example Spanish-Occitan, Breton-French, and
Basque-Spanish among others), and several more in development.

//Google Summer of Code (http://socghop.appspot.com) is a global program that provides scholarships for students from around the world to program in selected free/open-source software projects.

Last year, the Apertium Google Summer of Code was awarded 9 scholarships.

Students wishing to work this summer in one of the tasks (ideas) that the Apertium project has published (see
http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/apertium), may submit a proposal starting March 29 for a 5,000 dollar scholarship (a template is provided there).

Students are also welcome to visit the #apertium IRC channel at
freenode.net and ask there. They can also write to us at
apertium-...@dlsi.ua.es .

Best regards,


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Computer Science Department
Al-Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University