Bhuvan's story so far!..

"Bhuvaaaaaan edheelooooo" mum shouting at 9am that was on friday and my mob's vibrating, got a msg asking "dude are u interested in doing proj at IISc??" from apoo, i was like WoOw! definitely Yes!

Journey started!....

On the same day evening we met Sudarshan sir, my thoughts, "dude he looks so young has he really got Phd!?" hehe :D lesson don't get deceived by looks at IISc! :P Discussion was superb with nice cup of tea-

Idea of Text Simplification, first thought that was running in my mind "damn it i struggle so much reading these books, stopped reading novels because of such complicated phrases they get it into novels, y didn't i get this thought before!!??"

Woow sooper we are going to build some software that actually can simplify the text, It's going to be more of help to me and many such people who gets frustrated reading Dan browns huge novels!..

Well at the same time Sudarshan sir promised us he'll give tasks that are always achievable with our valid efforts.. That's one of the big reason why all of us have been able to gather knowledge of so many things in such a short span. First day he told we have to learn new language python, the first person i remembered then was Madhura, my classmate we always used to tease her "hebbav suthkondidhya" haha :D well now i'm going to learn that python super, well the language is awesome, no wonder y google has turned towards python! so many so many inbuilt functions, i'm in love with Snake!!..

And that was just a beginning i have seen nothing i was made to go through the the languages libraries, Natural lang toolkit, i just started loving more and more... How much they have improved the language with all the libraries, the corpus of information like wordnet, movie_reviews, genesis etc that they have collected is mind boggling. Going through wordnet was amazig and i used to be fully pumped up when it comes teaching it but first day was biggest flop show :P, those 3 didn't understand much of the concepts felt really guilty and made it a point i ll do better next time i was able to teach bigger crowed hehe :D then i taught 6 at a time was happy that everyone could understand and i was satisfied! :) :)

I think the best part of python is its ease of use.. And then sir was very particular about using ubuntu, i was like everything is there and can be made in windows till the date i installed this ubuntu, its like awesome, what u want to install?? just give a command and go and have cup of coffee ur software would be running on the machine :) :)

We are taken the task of converting the text into simplified version, one of the biggest challenge would be identifying the complexity, that can be achieved by seeing how frequently people use the word and replacing the word with most frequently used ones.. the challenge is retaining the meaning of the sentence even after the replacements.

I think text simplification will be really be a boon to the man kind, that would help so many people, so many people with there reading the text. Here we are trying to make that text simplification, with all our combined efforts under the guidance of an high voltage guide Dr.Sudarshan!