[Student-projects] Regarding the project 'A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections'

[Santhosh Thottingal]

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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Student-projects mailing list
> Student-projects at lists.smc.org.in
> http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/student-projects-smc.org.in
>