Hi, My name is Varun and I am a graduate student at the University Of Southern California majoring in Computer Science. My interests include Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.
During my undergraduate course, I was worked on a few NLP related projects such as implementing an unsupervised algorithm for topic segmentation (TextTiling algorithm by Marti Hearst) and a chatbot. I recently started working on Apache Nutch as part of a class project where I had to leverage certain APIs from OpenNLP to develop algorithms related to duplicate detection in crawled data. I was really fascinated by the capabilities of OpenNLP and I want to contribute towards it's development. I noticed that there are a couple of projects posted with the label gsoc2015 and I am interested in working on Unsupervised WSD techniques(OPENNLP-758). Before, I start working on my project proposal, I was wondering if there were any warm up tasks that I can take up so as to familiarize myself more with the codebase. I request you to help me get started with OpenNLP. So far, I have gone through the documentation and was able to clone build OpenNLP on my machine. Thanks and regards, Varun http://varun-varadarajan.info www.linkedin.com/in/varunvaradharajan
