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pyiwn: A Python-based API to access Indian Language WordNets

Indian language WordNets have their individual web-based browsing interfaces along with a common interface for IndoWordNet. These interfaces prove to be useful for language learners and in an educational domain, however, they do not provide the …

Synthesizing Audio for Hindi Wordnet

In this paper, we describe our work on the creation of a voice model using a speech synthesis system for the Hindi Language. We use pre-existing 'voices', use publicly available speech corpora to create a 'voice' using the Festival Speech Synthesis …

Is your Statement Purposeless? Predicting Computer Science Graduation Admission Acceptance based on Statement Of Purpose

We present a quantitative, data-driven machine learning approach to mitigate the problem of unpredictability of Computer Science Graduate School Admissions. In this paper, we discuss the possibility of a system which may help prospective applicants …

Sarcasm Suite: A browser-based engine for sarcasm detection and generation

Sarcasm Suite is a browser-based engine that deploys five of our past papers in sarcasm detection and generation. The sarcasm detection modules use four kinds of incongruity: sentiment incongruity, semantic incongruity, historical context incongruity …

A picture is worth a thousand words: Using OpenClipArt library for enriching IndoWordNet

WordNet has proved to be immensely useful for Word Sense Disambiguation, and thence Machine translation, Information Retrieval and Question Answering. It can also be used as a dictionary for educational purposes. The semantic nature of concepts in a …

Civique: Using Social Media to detect Urban Emergencies

We present the Civique system for emergency detection in urban areas by monitoring micro blogs like Tweets. The system detects emergency related events, and classifies them into appropriate categories like 'fire', 'accident', 'earthquake', etc. We …

Sophisticated Lexical Databases - Simplified Usage: Mobile Applications and Browser Plugins For Wordnets

India is a country with 22 officially recognized languages and 17 of these have WordNets, a crucial resource. Web browser based interfaces are available for these WordNets, but are not suited for mobile devices which deters people from effectively …

That’ll do fine!: A coarse lexical resource for English-Hindi MT, using polylingual topic models

Parallel corpora are often injected with bilingual lexical resources for improved Indian language machine translation (MT). In absence of such lexical resources, multilingual topic models have been used to create coarse lexical resources in the past, …

TransChat: Cross-Lingual Instant Messaging for Indian Languages

We present TransChat, an open-source, cross platform, Indian language Instant Messaging (IM) application that facilitates cross lingual textual communication over English and multiple Indian Languages. The application is a client-server IM …

Using Multilingual Topic Models for Improved Alignment in English-Hindi MT

Parallel corpora are often injected with bilingual dictionaries for improved Indian language machine translation (MT). In absence of such dictionaries, a coarse dictionary may be required. This paper demonstrates the use of a multilingual topic model …