Friedel Wolff

Senior consultant at Tangent Solutions

About

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).

Friedel Wolff has presented the following presentations

    Friedel Wolff Optimising full-text queries in the amaGama translation memory server at South Africa 2019

    presented by Friedel Wolff

    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...

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    Tue 8 2019 Case Studies