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Caption And Image Based Next-Word Auto-Completion, Meet Patel

Master's Projects

With the increasing number of options or choices in terms of entities like products, movies, songs, etc. which are now available to users, they try to save time by looking for an application or system that provides automatic recommendations. Recommender systems are automated computing processes that leverage concepts of Machine Learning, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence towards generating product recommendations based on a user’s preferences. These systems have given a significant boost to businesses across multiple segments as a result of reduced human intervention. One similar aspect of this is content writing. It would save users a lot of time …

Improved Chinese Language Processing For An Open Source Search Engine, Xianghong Sun

Master's Projects

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the process of computers analyzing on human languages. There are also many areas in NLP. Some of the areas include speech recognition, natural language understanding, and natural language generation.

Information retrieval and natural language processing for Asians languages has its own unique set of challenges not present for Indo-European languages. Some of these are text segmentation, named entity recognition in unsegmented text, and part of speech tagging. In this report, we describe our implementation of and experiments with improving the Chinese language processing sub-component of an open source search engine, Yioop. In particular, we rewrote …

Question Type Recognition Using Natural Language Input, Aishwarya Soni

Master's Projects

Recently, numerous specialists are concentrating on the utilization of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems in various domains, for example, data extraction and content mining. One of the difficulties with these innovations is building up a precise Question and Answering (QA) System. Question type recognition is the most significant task in a QA system, for example, chat bots. Organization such as National Institute of Standards (NIST) hosts a conference series called as Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) series which keeps a competition every year to encourage and improve the technique of information retrieval from a large corpus of text. When a user …