Our penultimate show...

       It was bright sunny on a Monday morning and we had our final project presentation at college. (There will be another one) But this would carry 100 marks of our total of 200 marks. I got up very early so that I get ready on time. I ironed my dress till there was not a single wrinkle on it. I wanted this to be a perfect day. But somehow I was convinced that it would not be a cakewalk. 

       We had decided to meet at 9 AM and be prepared for the presentation. But when I reached college, only Bhuvan was present there. I was instantly reminded of the proverb- "In life, everything does not happen according to the way you want it". I was disappointed but there was nothing I could do. I stood numb in the corridors trying very hard to come up with a solution and find a way out of this mess. At first, my pessimistic thoughts told me to go and cancel our presentation and tell them we were not prepared. But the optimist in me said we could manage it somehow. 

      Bhuvan was at the shop getting the printout of the report which was so pathetically formatted (all of us are to be blamed for that). I was surprised that the reviewers did not slam it on our faces. I could see all of us failing then. Since we were the 3rd batch, there was sometime before our turn came. Ambika came from her hometown directly to college, she did not know the developments in the project or her part in the presentation. I felt so helpless. We had two options: either sit and sulk about our irresponsible work or sit and work out something before our turn came. Of course we chose the second option. Ambika and I worked on the ppt while Bhuvan and Anusha got everything ready to show the demo of our project. Our turn would arrive in 15 minutes and we hurried through it. We did not have time to decide who would present what. We managed to finally consolidate everything on time.

        Our turn arrived and we entered the presentation room. Since our laptops have become moving desktops now, we need to plug in to the power supply in order to get it working. Meanwhile the reviewers were taking a look at our report. By the time we could set up the laptop and boot it, they started shooting questions about the project. Now this part is very easy as long as we know how to make them understand our point. So one question led to another and they understood the working of our whole idea behind the project without the use of slides and paper (and also without Bhuvan's turrrrrr turrrrr lines on the paper ;) )  But this post would go for a waste if I didn't mention about Bhuvan's presentation that day. He had that confidence in his tone and body language and he was so articulate that everybody understood the concept very well. They did not have any more questions for us. Everybody seemed to like the idea and they were very happy with the efforts put in by us in the past 5 months. At that moment, all of us forgot the roller coaster ride we had in the morning and were so joyous. What we couldn't achieve by sitting at home for a week was achieved in less than 60 minutes as a TEAM which stands for "Together Everyone Can Achieve More". 

         Lastly, I would say that all this would not be possible without the continuous faith of Sudarshan Sir  in us and for motivating us all this while; for being our inspiration for now and for years to come. It is also unfair if I conclude his contribution in just 2 lines. ( A separate post on Sudarshan Sir titled "Superman Sudarshan" will be up shortly) ;)

All in all a memorable day! :) 

Kickass Ending! Part-1

Apu-"nagbeda neenu nang modhle irritate aagthidhe", WoOw what a start for the day! Thoughts in my head "Openinge heege innu real movie hegirutho!!?? 0_o"

Never seen apu like that before, in all pink wear she was all red in anger!! :D If I had cracked any single pj I thing that would have been "The end" story for me!!:P :P Lucky me I didn't do any stupid things.

One big drama about the report alignment, Ambika was late, Anu was late and our team was late!!! Woow what an beginning to our final project review, it was for 100 marks as always we would fall back to our circle "bad presentation"!!

We didn't have proper ppt ready, we didn't have proper report ready, we are doomed!! With these thoughts in head I entered the department, Apu and Amibka were busy in making ppt anusha was busy in helping them out, me thinking what would happen with our presentation, Upon that, everyone are in formals, i was in my old style blue loose t-shirt and jeans, adding to my tension.

"Okay its done lets go and stand in front of the boardroom Akshatha's group has entered in" from Anu, we packed it up and sat outside the boardroom, Just looked at the report once wow such an awesome crap!! spent 110re for this which will be thrown on our face no matter what! :P My thoughts - " Should have made little less number of pages, if they throw on our face it would hit little soft atleast" :D

Just peeped in, there were some serious faces and serious questioning going on, man we are gone!! We don't have anything properly, No good Report neither a good ppt, most of all NO PREPARATION!! It will be bad for sure, other team came out, they weren't looking good, as they were saying they are screwing out there! We going to get it all for sure lets enter!

We just saw panel of 4 with Vinay sir taking the lead role(villain) :P He took our report he asked about Mysql to me, piece of cake, i gave back sooper answer, this one question gave me hell lot of confidence, he asked us to give a brief description about the project, as usual Apu sooper dooperly explained about the proj, That was Vinay's turn to summarize what he understand about the project, "Its a very simple project just replacing the words with there synonyms thats all" {my heart beats raising} Apu started answering something, I don't know what struck me, I didn't care for anything i just wanted to speak i thought i should cut loose, i raised my big tone, cut through her, spoke about complexity of just identifying complicated words in a text for about 3 mins, after my explanations i just could see nodding heads all around, wooowww they are convinced!! :) :) I was damn happy, we made it a mark! After that question i just realized everything else would be easy, they kept asking about different modules, i could see everyone in my team were standing as if they want to answer more and more question, Ambika , Anusha, Apu were all raising there tone while answering, I could see the confidence in everyone popping out. By the way HOD was so supportive that day he actually helped us answering a question! We never went to him for reporting about the progress not much of interaction with him, we thought he would be angry but today was a day which was beyond our imagination! Everything is happening exactly opposite from what we thought it would be..

We are finished you can leave wait have u presented any paper?? - "yes sir at BNMIT" you are the first team to get that 10marks :D from Vinay sir with a smile :) My thoughts- "What just happened was any kinda dream!?? Did we really do that!?" haha :D At last one good presentation, that to with Zero preparation and Zero confidence :) :)

We did it! Something which was next to impossible, which was least expected from all 4 of us. By the way i had told anusha i would definitely speak, will get back with a bang! Kept my promise ;) ;)

Happiesss Endinggss :) :) :)

Points To Be Taken Care While Preparing Project Report

Any project is incomplete without a proper report. Now it's time to prepare report for our project. Today we got the format for writing the report. Before we start writing the report we should keep the following points in mind and come up with a good report.The points to be taken care while writing the report are

• No sentence in the report must be copy pasted.

• Sentences in the report must be as small as possible.

• Paragraph should not go beyond 10 lines.

• Include as many diagrams as possible(at least 20 diagrams must be there in the report)

• Maintain the same tense throughout the report.

• Literature survey should include all the papers which are there in the blog and also the papers in the http://www.citeulike.org site.

• Introduction part should include

  1. Why is this problem important.

  2. Entire report must be summarized in the introduction.

  3. It should include definitions of necessary terms such as co-occurrance .

  4. It should also include brief introduction of packages such as NLTK, wordnet,pygtk etc.

• Conclusion part should include the work we have done(in brief) and it's future enhancements.

Keeping all these points in mind, friends lets put our best effort and come up with a great report :):)

20% progress!

"Sir, Sir co-occurrence matrix is the frequency of two words. Consider a big text sir its like we have a huge text compiled and we, we took out the co-occurrence of the two words!!", That was me who couldn't explain one single and one of the main part of work that we had done, this is the first thing that pops out of my head when i think about this Monday,11th April!

It was just another Monday, it has to be good one for us, we are ready with our working code, even though it won't give proper result some times, but you can expect 3 out of 5 times good answer. We were confident and Sudarshan sir had called us for early morning pre-presentation session.

Points to be noted:

• never go with techi terms while you are presenting.
• Never bring out the term markov matrix or matrix in that case!
• Be confident and go for it.

Sounds funny when i just think what i did in our boardroom, it was just opposite of sir's advise.

It was late, but it wasn't our mistake, we were confident but didn't have slides :P We entered but our time was bad. We wanted to start but didn't allowed to start. Hod wanted my parents contact number but i don't remember and its just the beginning!!

We stepped inside the boardroom Hod- " what do you 8th sem think of yourself? etc etc.. " my thoughts on that moment- "idhella namge bekitha!?? "Anyways he asked us to explain our contributions, guess what we were back in the same old circle, bad presentation he wasn't impressed! Later he gave one input, it didn't simplify, now the 2nd input even now it didn't get simplified, damn we are screwed, i knew 3 out of 5 times it will give proper answer, but never thought first 2 sentences were the wrong ones!!:P He rated our progress to be 20%.WOooW!! :P

Its just done and dust, i wasn't speaking anything about it, came out and just realized how upset was our guide. That was bad, need to show the simplified version of this input!

"We require the students to exhibit impeccable attitude"

We all of us had only one thing in mind, have to give the simplified result! sir should be impressed thats all what we had it in mind! After little tweaks by afternoon we got the ouptut that was expected!

"We need the students to show perfect attitude"

Woow!! done :) But still was nervous, sir gave 2 more sentences, YippEee was working, we got simplified version of it :D Happiessss endings with cane juice from our sir :) :) :)

All Izzz wellLL :) :)

Review story.....

The story starts with a call from our team-mate Bhuvan zero Raj zero R :) on Sunday evening .He told that there will be project review tomorrow . We were confident enough that we will give the review in a very good way as we had given it on Friday itself.He said that first 10 batches need to give the review which will start at 10 on Monday. Next day it was 10:30 when we went to the board room in our department.As our batch number was three we decided to go at 10:30,thinking that by 10:30 other batches would finish their review. But the story was different there. No one(other batches) had come for the review. As we stepped into the board room we got proper scoldings for all the reasons which start from bunking the class to coming late for the review. Then we were asked to give the review. By that time everything was vanished from our minds.That day morning at 7:30 we noted out the important points to be said.But after getting proper scoldings nothing was there in our minds.

The review started. I was asked "What is your contribution to the project??" The unexpected question for me. I prepared my mind and told about my part in the project. As soon as I completed that the next question was "What is your contribution to the project??". yeah the same question he asked again. I was bewildered why he is asking the same question again. I don't know why he asked again the same question.

I told about the percentage of my work in our project for the second time.Likewise he asked questions I tried my best to answer his questions.Literally I struggled to convince him. He was not letting me to explain in a continuous flow.It was not his fault may be I was nervous to answer all his questions.

It was next Bhuvan's turn. I think Bhuvan will never forget the word "co-occurance".He has put all his physical strength in explaining the word "co-occurance".He attempted to explain by drawing many rows and columns but he could not convince the audience there.But he is confident enough that he will not let happen the same in the next review.

Anusha continued with the Bhuvan's explanation and even she could not convince the audience. "One should understand the audience first and then explain according to his level" was the quote given by our reviewer. At last Apoorva told about her contribution in the project and she also answered some questions regarding our the time efficiency of our project.

Somehow review got over. But we were very disappointed. We didn't talk to each other for sometime. Then Sudarshan sir gave us some tips about how present it there.The best part of the review was that it inspired us a lot to improvise our code to give a better and accurate result(given the proper input). Amidst all these we enjoyed the explanation skills of Bhuvan zero Raj zero R :) :)

SAD MONDAY!..:(:(

Hi All,

Well Monday being the first day of the week is supposed to be best day,energetic,fully pumped etc etc but sadly for our text simplify group this turns out to be the most disappointing day all the time :(
Every time we plan out of ideas on how to show case our project i.e prepare for presentations before entering the board ,we would be all pumped up and fully confident on how to speak but when we start our presentation ,the entire story line changes ,disappointing!...:(

The same repeated this Monday too, We had our project review and we were supposed to explain what work has been so far and the status of the project so we reached college at 7.30 to discuss how to present our work done so far in a nice filmy way ( I meant to give a great show :P). We listed out few key points on what to speak like
1)What is Text Simplification?
2)Why text simplification is needed?
3)Our idea of implementing Text simplification etc etc

We were all set to face HOD to give a grand show as decided .Messages started flooding in inbox saying that we are supposed to be at 10.00 in board room for the review.We were in HODs cabin at 10.30 when our review was at 10.00 thinking that our turn would take time since ours was 3rd batch but anyways after getting few scoldings from Ramakrishna sir we got our chance to enter the board room.

Now starts the main play...........

Hod as soon as he saw started scolding for mass bunk ,Indiscipline etc etc.
Then all of sudden he pointed out Ambika's name and told her to explain what role she played in the project and what is her contribution to the project.I was quite shocked when he started off like that but Ambika somehow completed her explanation ,Hod was not convinced though .Then it was Bhuvan's turn . He has almost everything in his mind that he goes blank to explain even a single line of what he has done. He was angry and we could see his frustration by looking at the way how he was scribbling on the paper when Hod told him explain the Co ocurrence concept :P .Then it was Apoorva's turn followed by mine .I had only few contributions to explain even for that which HOD was not convinced.:(

All were looking at each others face perplexed when all this happened and the most interesting part is our guide was there sitting in front of us watching all this.He had explained very well beforehand on how to face project reviews and how to speak confidently but sadly all this drama happened in front of him:(

After we came out We discussed few points with our guide on what work is left out and how to face reviews in future.
We assigned tasks amongst ourselves and started with the same and we are waiting for this Saturday as this our deadline for completion of project and show it to HOD that our project indeed helps others in TEXT SIMPLIFICATION .
Party waiting on this Saturday for two reasons, one is project completion and one more Bhuvan's treat ..:P

hoping to post very soon ..

Cya GN!.........

Text Simplification --------Part 2

          I was out shopping with mom when my phone started ringing. It was Bhuvan who frantically called me to say there was going to be another round of project review by our HOD as he was not happy with the progress of 8th sem students. So we began preparing for Monday's review by running our script and debugging some errors. We got stuck since each module was on a different system. We had to integrate it on one system. We finally managed to do it until we realized in the morning of our ignorance and hence we ended up not showing the proper output to Sudarshan sir :P

          We somehow fall into our own trap because of our ignorance and this was no doubt one such day!! We had to somehow impress the reviewer with our presentation (where we have failed miserably). That was one of the reason we had a 7.30 AM meet today morning. We wanted to prepare well for the presentation. We noted down what to say and what NOT to say, hence we were all set to enter the room and give a great show until..........................

          We entered the room to find our HOD sitting alone. He took a sheet of paper which had our names and some phone number next to it. He asked all of us what our father's number is. We all told him until it was Bhuvan's turn. He started saying- "Sir, my dad's number starts with 9180..... and my mom's number starts with 9008....." and we all burst out laughing :D

     The review didn't go as expected and all of us were disappointed. But amidst all of these, there were such humorous moments which I can never forget. The reviewer was asking us our individual contributions. We found it difficult to explain to him what we actually did in the past 3 months working for 6 hours a day on an average. In the process most of us got restless and annoyed, so when it came to Bhuvan (again! ;) ) he took a book and started drawing lines like he was cutting a tree with a hacksaw blade. :D If I may quote Sir, it looked like he was drawing dark lines on the reviewer's face. He gave an input text which read- "Bhuvan abused Ambika" and the replacement was nill ( if u ask me, there was nothing to replace in that sentence) 

       We were all the more determined now to finish the tasks and show the output, so we went to the lab and started working. None of us spoke a word, we were concentrating that much! We did achieve something. Thanks to the review which happened, we became more efficient. 

  

       "We require the students to exhibit impeccable attitude" 

     was the input text which was not getting simplified in the review room. But now it shows-

        "We need the students to show perfect attitude"

Wow!! What an achievement.. It feels great to see the proper results :P

We were convinced that our package was working fine. If only we update our database (Markov matrix) and create a showy user interface , we would get better results. So its quite obvious what our next task should be. And here we are working on the same at 12 AM. 

We have a big party aligned for Saturday, so we are scheduled to complete our work by Friday.

Three cheers to Simplifiers!! :)

Hip hip........ (ok I can hear you guys shouting "hurray" :P )