User:Francis Tyers
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| /fɹænsɪs taɪəz/ | |
 This is me looking emo. |
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| Qualifications: | MA Linguistics BEng Software Engineering |
| Languages: | English (Native), American (ILR-5), Spanish (ILR-2) |
| 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!
...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; CC-BY-SA; GPL)
- 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, Fleiss' kappa
Standard: History of machine translation, Sudanese literature, History of the Macedonian language, Maria Sibylla Merian, Inter-rater reliability, METEOR, Evaluation of machine translation, Transfer-based machine translation, Interlingual machine translation
Low: Dice's coefficient, Morphological dictionary, Sliding window based part-of-speech tagging
To be written: Morphotactics, Two level morphology / Two-level morphology, Ezafe
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.
- The Apertium Wiki
- Some random stuff
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Machine translation at the Universitat d'Alacant (in progress)
- Masters degree in Linguistics at the University of East Anglia (graduated 2006)
- Bachelors degree in Software engineering at Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth (graduated 2005)
