Friedel Wolff
Senior consultant at Tangent Solutions
I am a Python developer with a keen interest in natural language processing. My PhD related to the automatic cleaning of translation memories to improve their quality.
I have used PostgreSQL through the Django web framework, but also in a translation memory system targeting it specifically.
I have contributed to a number of FOSS projects (also as part of my day job). A lot of FOSS software have Afrikaans translations due to my involvement.
Have a look at my website for more information about my publications (af) and projects (af).
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Past presentations
The amaGama project implements a FOSS translation memory web service built with Python on top of PostgreSQL. I recently worked on improving its performance, and would like to report on what I did and how I did it. The presentation will cover how an understanding of the problem domain, usage patterns and algorithms involved allowed for a big performance imp...
Oct 8 2019