User:Srj31/GSOC 2020 proposal:Bengali-Hindi pair

Contact information

Name: Sourabh Raj Jaiswal

Location: Noida, India

E-mail address: sourabhrj31@gmail.com

IRC: srj31

Timezone: UTC +5:30

Github: https://github.com/srj31

Why is it that you are interested in Machine Translation and Apertium?

I had the honor of representing Team India at the International Linguistics Olympiad 2019 at South Korea. It was this experience and the 3 years of indulging in Linguistics along with my interest in NLP, that got me interested in a Machine Translation project. Apertium being an open source platform for developing rule-based machine translation systems, has intrigued me to contribute to this platform and I will have the opportunity to further create more language pairs for the various languages of India.

Which of the published tasks are you interested in? What do you plan to do?

I plan on working on Adopting the unreleased language pair Hindi-Bengali. I plan on improving the pair to be able to translate sentences coherently. As Bengali and Hindi are similar in various linguistic aspects, they will have similar rules thus machine translation would give correct sentences if done correctly.