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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> I’m
in my 2<sup>nd</sup> year of the Professional Masters in Computational Linguistics
at the University of Washington here in Seattle. I’m
attending classes at 2/3 time and will probably be working on a Master’s
thesis/project/internship by July 2009.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> I
am floundering on picking a project. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> So,
I’m hoping that maybe the community of Arabic Linguists might be able to
give me some direction on what I could work on that would be most useful and
well-received.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>I, of course, have my own pet
projects which include: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Developing a tool for and then automatically annotating my
corpus of Yemeni TV & radio shows with POS-tags and eventually Syntax tags<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Automatically identify/extract the segments that are in San’aani/Dhamari<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Automatically identify/extract the segments that are in the
southern oriented dialects (Adeni & Ta’izzi)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>c.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Say something empirically informed about the structure of the
various varieties<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>d.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Say something smart about the social distribution and meaning or
lack thereof<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>e.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Use this as a seed for a machine-learning tool to learning to
identify different varieties in other mixed lect corpora<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>i.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Chat rooms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>ii.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Moroccan TV, radio and recording
of “authentic” speech<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>iii.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Code-switched Spanish-English;
English-Swahili<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Annotating some literary texts <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>from the Levant<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>from the Maghreb<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>c.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>See if I can identify features that uniquely identify the
difference between the categories<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>i.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>(I suspect that the incidence
& complexity of the Idaafa construction might be one)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>d.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Say something empirically informed about the structure of
literary Arabic as a function of the writer’s native vernacular variety<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Developing some automatic annotation tools that can be used to
produce Rich Internet Application documents so that an Intermediate mid to
Advanced Low Standard Arabic learner can use “bio-feedback” loops
to learn and self-test for the following skills.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Identifying the dictionary stem and maybe the root<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Recovering the short-vowels<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>c.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Segmenting the words into the constituent parts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>i.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Nouns<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional Conjunction<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional Preposition<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional article<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Stem<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional dual or plural<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Possessive pronouns<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>ii.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Imperfect Verbs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional Conjunction<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional modal marker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Subject pronoun marker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Stem<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional feminine, dual or plural marker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional object pronouns<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>iii.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Perfect Verbs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional Conjunction<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Stem<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Subject pronoun marker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional object pronouns<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>iv.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Prepositions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional Conjunction<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Stem<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level4 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Optional object pronouns<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>d.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Identifying the word gloss <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>e.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>As this project develops maybe even introduce <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>i.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>some Automatic Speech Recognition
for pronunciation training<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-2.25in;
mso-text-indent-alt:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span>ii.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>mood & case vowel recovery<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>f.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Develop a reasonable search engine for Arabic (and by analogy
Hebrew) that will try to locate all instances of a stem regardless of all of
the attached affixes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Currently Google returns a different set of documents for kTAb
than it does for AlktAb.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.75in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.25in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span
dir=LTR></span>Work on ways to improve performance of Statistically based
Machine Translation between Arabic and various source-target by improving word
alignment with word-segmentation segmentation and vowel recovery.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> So:
Does anybody have any suggestions on what I could do in about 480 staff-hours? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Here
is my motivating force:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am trying to find a niche where: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>I can be a software developer, without
giving up on my experience and training as a linguist and an Arabist. <span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>I can access my training &
make a contribution as a sociolinguist without completely giving up on being a SW
developer or Arabist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>I can continue to make a
contribution as an Anglophone with serious knowledge of Arabic and Arab culture
without abandoning any and all roles as a SW developer or Linguist.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Andy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Andrew
Freeman, PhD (Linguistics & Near Eastern Studies)</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BS
Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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