HI
I'm Rafi, a third year undergraduate student studying Computer Science &
Engineering in Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology. I'm
interested in the project Adopt an unreleased language pair for the language
pair Bangla-English.
The reason why I'm interested in this project is, as a native speaker of
Bangla, I strongly feel the need of a good Bangla-English machine translation
system. Bangla is one of the most spoken languages in the world with about 220
million native speakers, but the only open source machine translation system
available is the Apertium's one, which is currently in the incubator stage [1].
My goal is to bring the Bangla-English language pair up to release quality
result. To do this, I will
1. Add new transfer rules
2. Add more words to the dictionary
3. Improve handling of Bengali enclitics
4. Handle Bangladeshi Bengali and Indian Bengali variants properly
Skills:
I've good knowledge of Java, C++, Python and Android application development.
I've several apps on Google Play, one of which is an open source English to
Bangla dictionary named Ridmik Dictionary [2]. Currently it's one of the most
popular English - Bangla dictionaries for Android (more than 30,000 downloads
last year). Some other projects done by me has been uploaded to my Github
profile [3].
I'm a full time Linux user and I've a good understanding of the tools like sed,
awk, grep etc. I've taken the Theory of Computation and Compiler courses at my
university, where I've learned about finite automata, regular expressions,
parse trees etc. Bangla is my native language and English is my second
language, so I've good knowledge of grammatical rules in both of these
languages.
What I've done so far:
I've successfully compiled Apertium and Bangla-English language pair from their
sources. I've gone through the wiki pages to have an understanding how the
system works. Besides, I've added several entries into the dictionaries and
also tested these. Currently I'm working on the coding challenge posted in the
wiki page (translating the story "Where is James"). I hope I can finish it in
the next couple of days.
I'll be looking forward to any suggestion.
[1] http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Apertium-bn-en
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=buet.rafi.dictionary
[3] https://github.com/rafi-kamal
Regards
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