Account Setup
I started my first day by attending a virtual meeting with my manager and another intern who also joined today. I came to know an overview of another intern’s project and objectives. Based on the guidance of my manager, I called the Help Desk to set up my Gra access which is a two-factor authentication tool used by Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions. In the beginning, when I tried to log in to Office 365 I was getting an error message saying “incorrect user ID or password” though I was following the format and entering the correct user ID and password as recommended by my manager. Help Desk found out that my account was locked, and he had to reset the password for me. Now, I have access to office 365 (emails and MS Teams).
Planning and Setting Goals
I met with my mentor for a standup meeting which will occur daily for the first two weeks of the internship. We planned that I should spend my first week learning about ECL through HPCC Systems Training available on the HPCC system website followed by learning about NLP++ in the second week.
We also set our goal for this project. Our goal is to use the Nepali words and phrases available on Wiktionary, parse them, create structured data for dictionaries, and do the analysis using an NLP++ analyzer. To use words and phrases on Wiktionary, I will first have to download those words and upload them to the ECL cloud, access them using NLP++ plugins, and run them on local VisualText.
Training
Today, I started the training in ECL online class through which I came to learn about the trainers Richard Taylor and Bob Foreman.
Nepali NLP Initiative 