ParaCrawl
TAUS
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.
Projects
This page lists some projects I worked on before my PhD. For more recent work, please see my Publications.
MT/NLP Projects
Medical Machine Translation
University of Edinburgh
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.
Reward Augmented Maximum Likelihood to Improve Neural Machine Translation Training
University of Edinburgh
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.
Older Projects
Flow Shop Scheduling Optimisation using Natural Algorithms
St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
Optimisation of flow shop scheduling on the basis of makespan computation using natural (genetic) algorithms.
Traffic Rule Violation Information System (TRuVIS)
St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
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.
Android Notifier Accessory
St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
An affordable wearable Android accessory to display phone notifications on a wristwatch-like device.