[Project-ideas] Project Proposal ideas

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, nitesh surtani
<nitesh.surtani0606 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) An application UI testing framework for validating translation
> completeness and quality
>
> Mentor: Runa Bhattacharjee
>
> Though I am not very familiar will l10n, but I am very keen to explore this
> project. I have looked into the localization of a couple of software in
> Hindi (I wasn’t able to understand the UI in Bengali J). I have gone through
> the translations for Pidgin for Hindi
> (http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11411) and have understood few issues. I
> have a doubt though: Since I am not a Bengali speaker, will it affect my
> understanding and working on this project.

Have a look at the mail at
<http://lists.ankur.org.in/pipermail/project-ideas-ankur.org.in/2012-March/000012.html>

> 2) Add a language model for speech recognition software for Bengali language
>
> Mentor: Sayamindu Dasgupta
>
> I actually wanted some more insight regarding this project. Since the corpus
> is available, some HMM modeI (like HTK toolkit, usually used for speech
> recognition) can be used to implement this language model. I have used SRILM
> toolkit once for MT task as part of the course project to develop a
> domain-specific MT system for tourism domain.

I'll nudge up Sayamindu for a response. However, when you say, "corpus
is available" what specific corpus do you refer to ?


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