[Student-projects] GSoC 2014 - Student introduction

[Anirudh Vemula]

I am proficient both in Hindi and Telugu. I am sorry, I didn't make that
clear beforehand.

I have understood what the project intends to do. Can you direct me to the
code that performs the learning that is already in Varnam? I will get back
to you if I have anymore questions regarding the project. I intend to get
familiarised with the code first.

Thanks
Anirudh


On 27 February 2014 23:38, Navaneeth K N <nkn at riseup.net> wrote:

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> Hello Anirudh,
>
> On 2/27/14 11:21 PM, Anirudh Vemula wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I am assuming you are talking about the improve learning system idea.
>
> Varnam has a learning system built-in which can learn words and it can
> also learn possible other ways to write a word.
>
> For eg:
>         learn("भारत") = [bharat, bhaarath, bharath]
>         transliterate("bharat") = भारत
>         transliterate("bhaarath") = भारत
>         transliterate("bharath") = भारत
>
> Varnam also learns a word's prefixes so that it can produce better
> predictions for any word which has the same prefix. So in this case,
> with just learning the word "भारत", varnam can predict "bharateey" =
> "भारतीय".
>
> The proposed idea talks about making this learn better. One example is
> infer the word "भारत" when learning भारतीय. Something like a porter
> stemmer implementation but integrated into the varnam framework so that
> new language support can be added easily.
>
> In your case since you speak only Telugu, I am not sure how you can pick
> this up. Because today, varnam supports only Hindi and Malayalam.
> Probably you can add Telugu support and work on this idea.
>
> Let me know if something is unclear.
>
>
> >
> > 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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> - --
> Cheers,
> Navaneeth
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