[Student-projects] GSoC 2014 - Student introduction

[Anirudh Vemula]

I have found the instructions to build Varnam (from Gitorius itself). I am
looking forward to a detailed description of what the project is intended
to achieve.

Thanks
Anirudh


On 27 February 2014 23:18, Anirudh Vemula <anirudhfoss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am Anirudh Vemula, a 3rd year undergraduate at IIT Bombay, India. My
> hometown is Hyderabad and I speak Telugu(partially, one of the reasons I am
> interested in SMC). I am doing my Major in Computer Science and
> Engineering. My interests, in general, include reading novels, programming
> and gaming. In programming, my interests broadly include functional
> programming, graphics programming and game programming. I am planning to
> pursue higher studies (an MS or PhD) in Machine Learning.
>
> I haven't contributed to any open source project before this but I am sure
> GSoC would serve as the best platform to introduce me to this area. I
> follow the development of projects such as SimpleCV, Git and PaGMO closely
> and I am part of their mailing lists as I use their projects extensively. I
> have had my share of experience in Computer graphics. I have completed a
> basic ML course and I am currently doing my Advanced ML course at IITB.
>
> I have gone through the list of Project ideas put up in the SOC page.
> Among those projects, I really liked the one which tackled the issue of '*Improving
> the learning system*' of Varnam. I have played around with the online
> Varnam editor and also downloaded the source code of Varnam(libvarnam) from
> Gitorius.
>
> The actual improvement that is expected of the student is not mentioned in
> the description of the project in the page. I would like to know what is
> expected of the student who takes up this project and what is the current
> method used by Varnam to suggest the words?
>
> Also, can anyone point me to where I can get instructions to build Varnam?
>
> Thanks
> Anirudh
>
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