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Android Notifier Accessory

An affordable wearable Android accessory to display phone notifications on a wristwatch-like device.

Traffic Rule Violation Information System (TRuVIS)

A device which could be placed in motor vehicles to automatically detect violation of traffic rules and report to traffic police, specifically designed for no-horn zone violations.

Flow Shop Scheduling Optimisation using Natural Algorithms

Optimisation of flow shop scheduling on the basis of makespan computation using natural (genetic) algorithms.

Reward Augmented Maximum Likelihood to Improve Neural Machine Translation Training

MSc project at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Dr. Kenneth Heafield. Implemented the Reward Augmented Maximum Likelihood method and improved the quality of translation of the University of Edinburgh’s neural machine translation system by augmenting the training objective with reinforcement learning-inspired task rewards.

Medical Machine Translation

EPSRC GCRF-funded project in collaboration with the University of Cape Town to build a machine translation system to facilitate communication in the medical domain between isiXhosa-speaking patients and English-speaking doctors in health centres in South Africa. I participated as a research assistant at the University of Edinburgh.

ParaCrawl

Long-term EU(CEF)-funded project to collect parallel corpora from large-scale web crawls. I participated during my time as a data engineer at one of the project partners — TAUS.

The University of Edinburgh’s Bengali-Hindi Submissions to the WMT21 News Translation Task

Published in WMT21 at EMNLP, 2021

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Cheat Codes to Quantify Missing Source Information in Neural Machine Translation

Published in NAACL, 2022

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Cheating to Identify Hard Problems for Neural Machine Translation

Published in EACL (Findings), 2023

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Findings of the IWSLT 2023 Evaluation Campaign

Published in IWSLT, 2023

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Improving Isochronous Machine Translation with Target Factors and Auxiliary Counters

Published in INTERSPEECH, 2023

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Xhosa-English Machine Translation for the Medical Domain

Published: December 04, 2017

As part of a project to develop medical domain machine translation systems between isiXhosa and English (see project page for more details), the University of Cape Town hosted a workshop, where I presented the challenges of building such a system in low-resource languages, some low-resource techniques to build better MT systems, the data used for building the medical domain isiXhosa-English MT models, and some preliminary results.

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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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