User:Francis Tyers
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| Qualifications: | MA Linguistics BEng Software Engineering |
| Languages: | English (Native), French (ILR-2), Romanian (ILR-1) |
| Interests: | Machine translation, Free software, Linguistics, Lesser-used languages |
| Programming: | C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Bash scripting |
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I maintain the Debian packages for Apertium. Ask me about free machine translation!
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...through the gate of god, a rain of stars upon man
On several irc networks as spectre or spectie or possibly spectei... catch me in irc.freenode.net #linguistics
- Gallery of Photographs Contributed to Commons (all GFDL)
- How to Say "Fuck the border" in 69 Languages
Accused of folk linguistics? Read Language Log.
Pages I have substantially contributed to or started
Featured: Macedonia (terminology)
Good: Tajik alphabet, Leprechaun, Mythical origins of language, BLEU
Standard: History of machine translation, Sudanese literature, History of the Macedonian language, Maria Sibylla Merian, Fleiss' kappa, Inter-rater reliability, METEOR
Low: Dice's coefficient
Some ongoing /Research.
Bots: en:User:ArticleGrinder, sh:User:Wiki kombajn, tg:User:Bishbot, tg:User:МКАБОТ
Some links
- My account with Hospitality Club
- The ACL (Assoc. Comp. Ling.) Wiki — A Wiki for Computational linguistics.
Projects
- A horrible Farsi -> Tajik transliterator
- Iranian Persian -> Tajik dictionary look up (wordlist translation)
- Apertium language data alpha testing
Qualifications
- Masters degree in Linguistics at University of East Anglia (graduated 2006)
- Bachelors degree in Software engineering at University of Wales, Aberystwyth (graduated 2005)
[[|thumb|right|150px|I hereby grant you the Ehsan Yarshater's award, the highest Iranistics award for your remarkable contributions to articles on Iranian languages.Sangak 20:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)]]
