[Student-projects] Student-projects Digest, Vol 1, Issue 8

Fri Feb 28 02:17:45 PST 2014

Hi

I am tessy.I am interested in applying for smc as aprt of gsoc.I have an
average understanding of Malayalam grammar and is willing to learn more.I
also tried working with python.I am interested to know more about to
projects
1.creating a spell checker
2.improvement for REST API
I would like to know about the application process.and eligibility criteria.

Regards
Tessy
https://github.com/Tessie

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>    1. Re: GSoC Varnam (Navaneeth K N)
>    2. Re: GSoC Varnam (Anivar Aravind)
>    3. Fwd: A spell checker for indic language that      understands
>       inflections (Jaseem Umar)
>    4. Fwd: [GSOC14-Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa,
>       including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC]
>       (Shashi Essp)
>    5. Re: [GSOC14-Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa,
>       including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC]
>       (Jishnu)
>    6. Re: Regarding the project 'A spell checker for Indic language
>       that understands inflections' (Santhosh Thottingal)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:30:02 +0530
> From: Navaneeth K N <nkn at riseup.net>
> To: student-projects at lists.smc.org.in
> Subject: Re: [Student-projects] GSoC Varnam
> Message-ID: <531025E2.2020800 at riseup.net>
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> Hello Kevin Martin,
>
> Thanks for checking out the code. Can you join on varnam's mailing
> list[1] and discuss the technical questions over there so that this list
> won't get polluted?
>
> [1]: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/varnamproject-discuss
>
> On 2/28/14 1:48 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm Kevin and I'm a 3rd year computer science student from College of
> > engineering Trivandrum. I accidentally posted my initial inquiries to the
> > discussion list of SMC and was thus delayed. I'm interested in improving
> > the machine learning capabilities of Varnam. I'm a native speaker of
> > malayalam and I believe this can be considered as an added advantage. I
> > have built varnam on my machine using the instructions provided at
> > gitorious and was attempting to read the source. As directed by
> Navaneeth K
> > N in a previous thread, I began by reading learn.c.
> >
> >
> > However, I quickly ran into doubts. Though I think spending a few more
> > hours reading the code carefully would reveal the answers to me, I'd feel
> > more comfortable if someone can validate my doubts :
> >
> > 1) Token : A token is an indivisible word. A token is the basic building
> > block. 'tokens' is an object (instance? I mean the non-OOP equivalent of
> an
> > object) of the type varray. 'tokens' contain all the possible patterns
> of a
> > token? For example, ?????? ????????????? ?????????? ????? would all go
> > under the same varray instance 'tokens'?. And each word ( for eg ?????? )
> > would occupy a slot at tokens->memory I suppose. Am I right in this
> regard?
> >
> > 2) I see the data type 'v_' frequently used. However,I could not find its
> > definition! I missed it, of course. Running ctrl+f on a few source files
> > did not turn up the definitions. So I thought I would simply ask here! I
> > would be really grateful if you can tell me where it is defined and why
> it
> > is defined (what it does)
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Kevin Martin Jose
> >
> >
> >
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> - --
> Cheers,
> Navaneeth
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:54:32 +0530
> From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com>
> To: Navaneeth K N <nkn at riseup.net>
> Cc: student-projects at lists.smc.org.in
> Subject: Re: [Student-projects] GSoC Varnam
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> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Navaneeth K N <nkn at riseup.net> wrote:
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> > Hello Kevin Martin,
> >
> > Thanks for checking out the code. Can you join on varnam's mailing
> > list[1] and discuss the technical questions over there so that this list
> > won't get polluted?
> >
>
> Dear Navaneeth,
> This student project list is specifically for ideas proposed and you can
> link the public archives always .
> There is no point of polluting this list .
> if there is a need of using project list , use cross posting
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> Anivar
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:31:03 +0530
> From: Jaseem Umar <jaseemumar at gmail.com>
> To: student-projects at lists.smc.org.in
> Subject: [Student-projects] Fwd: A spell checker for indic language
>         that    understands inflections
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> Hi,
>
> I'm Jaseem Umar, a sophomore computer science undergrad from IIT Bombay. I
> got interested in "A spell checker for indic language that understands
> inflections" mentored by Santhosh Thottingal.
>
> As given in the statement, I need to attempt this first using Hunspell. I
> assume this would require me to find patterns of inflections and
> agglutinations, and creating a Hunspell dict accordingly. Please correct me
> if I'm wrong.
>
> I have installed the SILPA spellchecker from github, but running the test
> file provided is returning fail.
> --
> Jaseem
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:40:10 +0530
> From: Shashi Essp <shashiessp at gmail.com>
> To: Student-projects at lists.smc.org.in
> Subject: [Student-projects] Fwd: [GSOC14-Provide REST API for new
>         flask based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST
> API
>         from JSON RPC]
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> Hi
> I am setting up Silpa-Flask <https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Silpa-Flask>
> I have installed all the dependencies and modules as mentioned in updated
> https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Silpa-Flask/blob/master/README file, in
> my
> venv
>
> still i m getting following error
> Failed to import module scriptrender
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "silpa.py", line 109, in <module>
>     add_templates()
>   File "silpa.py", line 52, in add_templates
>     templates.append(PackageLoader(key))
>   File
>
> "/home/shashi/projectsilpa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/loaders.py",
> line 214, in __init__
>     provider = get_provider(package_name)
>   File
>
> "/home/shashi/projectsilpa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.34-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> line 219, in get_provider
>     __import__(moduleOrReq)
>   File
>
> "/home/shashi/projectsilpa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scriptrender-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/scriptrender/__init__.py",
> line 3, in <module>
>     from core  import getInstance
>   File
>
> "/home/shashi/projectsilpa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scriptrender-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/scriptrender/core.py",
> line 21, in <module>
>     import cairo
> ImportError: No module named cairo
>
> requesting for guidance to fix the problem
>
>
> Regards
> Shashi
> http://github.com/shashisp
>
> >
> >
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> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:43:43 +0530
> From: Jishnu <jishnu7 at gmail.com>
> To: Student-projects at lists.smc.org.in
> Subject: Re: [Student-projects] [GSOC14-Provide REST API for new flask
>         based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST API
> from
>         JSON RPC]
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> Hi,
> Please post to the mailing list, other can also reply.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Shashi Essp <shashiessp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jishnu,
> >
> > I have installed all the dependencies and modules as mentioned in updated
> > https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Silpa-Flask/blob/master/README file, in
> > my venv
> >
> > still i m getting following error
> > Failed to import module scriptrender
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "silpa.py", line 109, in <module>
> >     add_templates()
> >   File "silpa.py", line 52, in add_templates
> >     templates.append(PackageLoader(key))
> >   File
> >
> "/home/shashi/projectsilpa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jinja2/loaders.py",
> > line 214, in __init__
> >     provider = get_provider(package_name)
> >   File
> >
> "/home/shashi/projectsilpa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.34-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py",
> > line 219, in get_provider
> >     __import__(moduleOrReq)
> >   File
> >
> "/home/shashi/projectsilpa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scriptrender-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/scriptrender/__init__.py",
> > line 3, in <module>
> >     from core  import getInstance
> >   File
> >
> "/home/shashi/projectsilpa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scriptrender-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/scriptrender/core.py",
> > line 21, in <module>
> >     import cairo
> > ImportError: No module named cairo
> >
> > requesting for guidance to fix the problem
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Shashi
> > http://github.com/shashisp
> >
>
> Cairo doesn't work well inside virtual environment. So after installing it
> on system, you need to re-create virtual environment with
> "--system-site-packages" option.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jishnu
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:18:37 +0530
> From: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com>
> To: student-projects at lists.smc.org.in
> Subject: Re: [Student-projects] Regarding the project 'A spell checker
>         for Indic language that understands inflections'
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> Hi Aravind,
>
> Thanks for the interest in the project. Please go through the wiki page
> http://wiki.smc.org.in/SoC/2014 for details about the application
> process. Applications will be reviewed by SMC mentors.
>
> The spellchecker is a tough project. Please do not underestimate it. You
> will see lot of programs in internet that does this for English. But it
> is quite different for Malayalam. This project was listed in last year
> also. We did receive lot of applications but did not show in depth
> understanding of the issues. The project is about developing an
> algorithm to handle inflections and agglutinations of Malayalam.
>
> So it is not just about coding an algorithm, but about coming up with an
> algorithm.
>
> If you are interested in solving this, start looking at the current
> Malayalam spellchecker based on Hunspell, alternate algorithm we tried
> in silpa, and about the nature of inflection and agglutination issue to
> be handled. Along with learning the problem, start writing your notes in
> SMC wiki(or in some public place). Your ability to research, problem
> solving skills should impress the evaluation team. All the best.
>
> You are free to ask questions and clarifications about the project, but
> after doing some homework.
>
> Thanks
> Santhosh
>
>
> On 02/25/2014 08:49 PM, Aravind K.n wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm Aravind K N, I'm from Kerala, India. I am currently in the 2nd year
> > of my Computer Science and Engineering course. I have been learning
> > programming for the past 4 years and I believe I can code well in C as
> > well as in C++. I'm also quite familiar with JavaScript. I'm interested
> > in the project 'A spell checker for Indic language that understands
> > inflections'. Being born and bought up in Kerala, I'm familiar with
> > Malayalam language. I would be more than happy to work with the the
> > spell checker program. I would like help to do so, if you have no
> > objection in me trying.
> >
> > --
> > Aravind K N
> > IInd Year BTech ( Computer Science and Engineering)
> > Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri
> >
> >
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