[Student-projects] GSoC 2014 - Student introduction

[Navaneeth K N]

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Hello,

On 2/27/14 11:48 PM, Anirudh Vemula wrote:
> 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.

You can start reading from this file -
https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam/source/68a17b6e2e5d114d6a606a9a47294917655a167f:learn.c

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