Week 05 – Nepali NLP Initiative

Week 5 Day 5: Rewriting of Mission Statement and Nepali Rank Page Development

To clarify my mission and touch people’s hearts, David (my mentor and developer of NLP++) and I brainstormed on how to make people more interested in this project of building Wiktionary. As a result, I ended up rewriting the mission statement so that people would be able to feel the importance of building a NepaliContinue reading “Week 5 Day 5: Rewriting of Mission Statement and Nepali Rank Page Development”

Week 5 Day 4: Recruitment Advertisement and creation of text files for newly added words

Discussion on Wiktionary I reached out to the top 10 contributors of Nepali Wiktionary and wrote messages for collaboration on the discussion page of each contributor. As a result, I could hear back from two of the contributors. One was a non-Nepali speaker, but he provided me positive feedback along with a link to aContinue reading “Week 5 Day 4: Recruitment Advertisement and creation of text files for newly added words”

Week 5 Day 1, 2, & 3: Continuation of Word Development and Entry to Wiktionary

I revised the word entry layout/rules based on the layout provided by Wiktionary and added the following rules to our website: http://www.nepalinlp.org: A word’s language (as a level 2 heading, e.g.: ==Nepali==), Its part of speech or “type” (as a level 3 heading, e.g.: ===Noun/pronoun/adj===), The word itself (using the correct headword template),[3] Word phonetic transcriptionsContinue reading “Week 5 Day 1, 2, & 3: Continuation of Word Development and Entry to Wiktionary”