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Local Chapter project

Developing a Natural Language Toolkit for the Nepali Language

NLP
Start date
July 7, 2023
Finish date
August 4, 2023
Project status
completed
Developing a Natural Language Toolkit for the Nepali Language

Challenge background

The project aims to develop a natural language toolkit for Nepali language. This toolkit will be used to process Nepali text and extract useful information from it.

The problem

There are a number of Nepali natural language toolkits available, but no standard single toolkit provides all the necessary functionalities for natural language processing (NLP).

Goal of the project

The goal of the project is to develop a natural language toolkit for the Nepali language that provides the necessary functionalities for natural language processing.

Project timeline

  1. 1

    Week 1

    Collect ready made resources for lemmatization, stemming, tokenization, and stopwords creation for Nepali language.

  2. 2

    Week 2

    Test ready made tools and evaluate their performance.

  3. 3

    Week 3

    Develop own models if the ready made tools are not satisfactory.

  4. 4

    Week 4

    Integrate the developed models into the natural language toolkit.

What you'll learn

Fundamentals of NLP

Get involved

What to expect from a Local Chapter project

First project

  • Welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners.
  • Focuses on education and collaborative delivery.
  • Produces open-source project work.

Benefits

  • Address a significant real-world problem with your skills.
  • Build your project portfolio.
  • Demonstrate your work to organizations and project partners.

Requirements

  • Working English communication.
  • A learning mindset.
  • Commitment to collaborative project work.