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== Personal Details ==
'''Google Summer of Code 2019: Proposal [First Draft] [INCOMPLETE]'''
'''Name:''' Tanmai Khanna


'''E-mail address:''' khanna.tanmai@gmail.com , tanmai.khanna@research.iiit.ac.in
== Anaphora Resolution ==


'''IRC:''' khannatanmai
Who am I?


'''GitHub:''' [http://github.com/khannatanmai khannatanmai]
What open source software do you use?


'''LinkedIn:''' [http://linkedin.com/in/khannatanmai khannatanmai]
Have used apertium in the past, ubuntu, firefox, vlc.


'''Current Designation:''' Graduate Researcher in the LTRC Lab, IIIT Hyderabad (5th year student) and a Teaching Assistant for Linguistics courses
What are your professional interests?


'''Time Zone:''' GMT+5:30
I’m currently studying NLP and I have a particular interest in Linguistics


== About Me ==
What are your hobbies?


'''Professional Interests:''' I’m currently doing research in Computational Linguistics and I have a particular interest in Linguistics and NLP tools, specifically Machine Translation and its components.
I love singing, reading, debating.


'''Hobbies:''' I enjoy playing the bass, singing, reading, and used to be super into Parliamentary Debating in uni.
What is your skill set?


== Ideas ==
Creating NLP tools, Thorough Linguistic Analysis, Writing clean and understandable code


'''Constructions in low resource MT:''' [[User:Khannatanmai/Constructions]]
What do you want to get out of GSoC?


== Google Summer of Code 2019 -- Anaphora Resolution ==
I’ve studied about apertium and it’s amazing to me that I get an opportunity to work with them. NLP is what I want to do in life and working with a team to develop tools that actual people use will be invaluable experience that classes simply cannot match.


'''Proposal ''': [[User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2019Proposal]]
=== Personal Details ===


'''Final Report''': [[User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2019Report]]
Name: Tanmai Khanna


== Google Summer of Code 2020 -- Markup handling with wordbound blanks ==
E-mail address: khanna.tanmai@gmail.com


'''Proposal: Modifying the apertium stream format and eliminating dictionary trimming: [[User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2020Proposal_Trimming]]'''
Other information that may be useful to contact you (e.g. IRC):


Development of the stream extension: [[User:Khannatanmai/New_Apertium_stream_format]]
IRC: khannatanmai


Eliminating Dictionary Trimming: [[User:Khannatanmai/Eliminating_Dictionary_Trimming]]
GitHub: khannatanmai


'''Progress: [[User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2020Progress]]'''
=== Why is it that you are interested in Apertium? / Why am I interested in Machine Translation? ===


Documentation of features related to secondary tags: [[User:Khannatanmai/Secondary_tags_features]]
Apertium is an Open Source Rule-based MT system. Each part of their mission statement interests me and excites me to be working with them. I have been part of the Machine Translation lab in my college and it interests me because it’s a huge problem and is often called NLP-Complete by my professors, i.e. it uses most of the tools NLP has to offer and hence if one learns to do good MT they learn most of Natural Language Processing.
While Neural Networks, Deep Learning is the fad these days, they only work for resource rich languages and that’s why I feel a project which is rule based and open source really helps the community with language pairs that our resource poor and gives them free translations for their needs.


Alternate stream modification proposal: [[User:Khannatanmai/Alternate_stream_modification]]
=== Which of the published tasks are you interested in? What do you plan to do? ===


Development of the updated stream extension: [[User:Khannatanmai/Secondary_info_apertium_stream_format]]
Anaphora Resolution - Currently uses default male. I don’t plan to make a perfect anaphora resolution in 3 months, but I’m confident that I can make one which works better than the default male.


'''Development of wordbound blanks: [[User:Khannatanmai/Wordbound_blanks]]'''
I feel that this project affects almost all language pairs in apertium and hence it affects almost everyone using the tool. Pronouns are present in a lot of languages and with gendered pronouns, singular, plural, etc., we need to find out what they refer to. Why is this important?


'''Documentation of wordbound blanks: [[Wordbound_blanks]]'''
A sentence like “The group agreed to release his mission statement” is grammatically incoherent and an incorrect pronoun will more often than not confuse people in more complex sentences.
What puts people off Machine Translation is the lack of fluency, and I feel this is an important contribution to fluency and will definitely generate more fluent sentences leading to more trust in this tool.


'''Final Report: [[User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2020_Final_Report]]'''
=== IDEAS ===

Use elimination to figure out which noun.
Like heads of chunks can be referred to.
Can we use semantics or not?
Should it be language independent? Very less or no dependence on external tools, like wordnet, framenet, etc.
For basic sentences, it will definitely help (with female subjects)
When translating from languages with gender in pronouns, retain that info. Can be used for anaphora resolution in target language.
If it knows about animacy, in the coding challenge I can give accurate result.

=== QUESTIONS ===
Is this tool supposed to be language independent? For eg., Anaphora Resolution of English can use certain tools which capture semantics to perform better. If it is language independent then we can’t depend on external tools, which would need solutions which use only the information available out of biltrans.
Suddenly stopping the default male system and putting another one could give worse results. Going step by step makes more sense. For eg., sentences with just one noun and if that noun is female, the later pronoun has to be female. There we should use female anaphor. Eg. “La chica comió su manzana” translates to “The girl ate his apple”.

Even without touching the default male system, if the only candidate antecedent is female, the anaphor should be female.
Apart from this, I feel a good method might be to use elimination to figure out the best antecedent for an anaphor. Biltrans does seem to have some element of animacy. We can use that to eliminate. Also, if a chunk exists, such as “Groups of the Parliament”, the head of the chunk is “groups” and it is more likely that an anaphor refers to the head of a chunk.

=== STUFF TO DO ===

* Understand the system, Get familiar with the files that I need to modify
* Formalise the problem, limit the scope of anaphora resolution (To Anaphora needed for MT)
* May include general anaphora (Need to decide on scope [for gisting])
* Annotation of anaphora for evaluation
* Flowchart of proposed system and Pseudocode
* Implement a scoring system for antecedent indicators [work for Target Language:English for now]
* Decide on a definite context window
* Implement basic anaphora outside the pipeline (python)
* Implement basic transfer rules to see if final system will work
* A basic prototype of final system ready
* Port the basic prototype to C++ (All further coding to be done in C++)
* TEST the system
* Document the outline
* Implement system to work out all possible antecedents
* Add ability to give antecedents a score
* TEST basic sentences with single antecedents, Test the pipeline
* Implement Antecedent Indicators:
Implement Boosting Indicators
Implement Impeding Indicators
* Implement tie breaking systems
* Implement fallback for anaphora (in case of too many antecedents or not past certainty threshold)
* TEST Scoring System
* Implement transfer rules to deal with new additions
* Evaluate current system and produce precision and recall
* Implement Expectation-Maximization Algorithm
* Use Monolingual corpus to get probabilities of anaphora
* Implement choosing anaphora with max probability:
If Scoring System has a tie
As an independent system
- Compare the effectiveness of the above two possibilities
* Test EM Algorithm and implemented system
* Evaluate if addition of EM gives us significant benefits
* Insert into Apertium pipeline:
Implement code to accept input in chunks and process it
Code to remember antecedents for a certain window
Output with anaphora attached
* TEST final system with multiple pairs, see what needs to be changed for pairs
* TEST for backwards compatibility and ensure it


* Agreement: Different for different languages?
* Agreement rules in Arabic, however, are different. For instance, a set of non- human items (animals, plants, objects) is referred to by a singular feminine pronoun.
* Since Arabic is an agglutinative language, the pronouns may appear as suffixes of verbs, nouns (e.g., in the case of possessive pronouns) and preposi- tions.

* '''Antecedent Indicators:'''

* Boosting Indicators[Scoring different for different languages]
First NPs
Indicating Verbs
Lexical Reiteration
Section Heading Preference
Collocation Pattern Preference
Immediate reference (if it is pronoun then its reference)
Sequential Instructions

* Impeding Indicators
Indefiniteness
Prepositional NPs


=== Reasons why Google and Apertium should sponsor it: ===

I feel that this project affects almost all language pairs in apertium and hence it affects almost everyone using Apertium. A decent anaphora resolution will give the output an important boost in it’s fluency and intelligibility, not just for one language, but all of them.
It’s a project which has promising future prospects - apart from the fact that language specific features can be added to improve it, we’ll be doing anaphora resolution even for languages which don’t need it to pick the correct pronoun. Doing this will enable Apertium to do gisting translation, which is an important tool and anaphora resolution is an essential cog in that wheel.

=== A description of how and who it will benefit in society: ===
It will definitely benefit most users of Apertium and hopefully will attract more people to the tool. I’m from India and for a lot of our languages we don’t have the data to create reliable Neural MT systems. Similarly, for all resource poor languages, Apertium provides an easy and reliable MT system for their needs. That’s how Apertium benefits society already.

I feel that currently what repels people from Machine Translation is unintelligible outputs and too much post editing which makes it useless for them. While Apertium aims to make minimal errors, as of now it selects a default male pronoun and that leads to several unintelligible outputs. Fixing that and making the system more fluent and intelligible overall should definitely attract people to using Machine Translation and help them to reduce costs of time and money.

=== Work plan ===

* Week 1:
* Week 2:
* Week 3:
* Week 4:

* '''Deliverable #1'''

* Week 5:
* Week 6:
* Week 7:
* Week 8:

* '''Deliverable #2'''

* Week 9:
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* Week 12:

* '''Project completed'''

Include time needed to think, to program, to document and to disseminate.

If you are intending to disseminate to a conference, which conference are you intending to submit to. Make sure
to factor in time taken to run any experiments/evaluations and write them up in your work plan.

List your skills and give evidence of your qualifications. Tell us what is your current field of study,
major, etc. Convince us that you can do the work.

List any non-Summer-of-Code plans you have for the Summer, especially employment, if you are applying for
internships, and class-taking. Be specific about schedules and time commitments. we would like to be sure you have
at least 30 free hours a week to develop for our project.

=== Non-Summer-Of-Code Plans ===

I will have a 3 month vacation from May to July so will heave no other commitments in that period and will be dedicated to GSoC full time (40 hours?)
I am going on a short trip to London from 15 May to 22 May but I will have internet there and will be working a little less than normal but will catch up.

=== Coding Challenge ===

https://github.com/khannatanmai/apertium

Successfully completed the coding challenge:
* Wrote code to do basic anaphora resolution (last seen noun), input taken as a stream (byte by byte)
* Wrote code to do basic anaphora resolution (last seen noun), input taken as a stream (as a chunk)
* Compared speed-ups and wrote a report

Latest revision as of 04:27, 9 September 2020

Personal Details[edit]

Name: Tanmai Khanna

E-mail address: khanna.tanmai@gmail.com , tanmai.khanna@research.iiit.ac.in

IRC: khannatanmai

GitHub: khannatanmai

LinkedIn: khannatanmai

Current Designation: Graduate Researcher in the LTRC Lab, IIIT Hyderabad (5th year student) and a Teaching Assistant for Linguistics courses

Time Zone: GMT+5:30

About Me[edit]

Professional Interests: I’m currently doing research in Computational Linguistics and I have a particular interest in Linguistics and NLP tools, specifically Machine Translation and its components.

Hobbies: I enjoy playing the bass, singing, reading, and used to be super into Parliamentary Debating in uni.

Ideas[edit]

Constructions in low resource MT: User:Khannatanmai/Constructions

Google Summer of Code 2019 -- Anaphora Resolution[edit]

Proposal : User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2019Proposal

Final Report: User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2019Report

Google Summer of Code 2020 -- Markup handling with wordbound blanks[edit]

Proposal: Modifying the apertium stream format and eliminating dictionary trimming: User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2020Proposal_Trimming

Development of the stream extension: User:Khannatanmai/New_Apertium_stream_format

Eliminating Dictionary Trimming: User:Khannatanmai/Eliminating_Dictionary_Trimming

Progress: User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2020Progress

Documentation of features related to secondary tags: User:Khannatanmai/Secondary_tags_features

Alternate stream modification proposal: User:Khannatanmai/Alternate_stream_modification

Development of the updated stream extension: User:Khannatanmai/Secondary_info_apertium_stream_format

Development of wordbound blanks: User:Khannatanmai/Wordbound_blanks

Documentation of wordbound blanks: Wordbound_blanks

Final Report: User:Khannatanmai/GSoC2020_Final_Report

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