Re: [Wikisource-l] Improving information retrieval methods for OCR data sets consisting of Indic scripts - Wikisource-l

8 Apr 2014

I am expecting any response from Ankur Group regarding Bengali/Bangla OCR
project which we are interested to use in practical field. Area there any
binary file to use offline?

Jayanta Nath
Bengali Wikisource Community

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Jayanta Nath &lt;jayantanth(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
  Hi Sankarshan,

 Thank you for prompt inisitiative after talking at Kolkata bookfair.
 Bengali wikipedia community ( wiki source, bn.wikisource.org),   are
 ready to do a nothing except coding to crack this OCR issues. As all you
 know that, this will not only help for us, it will be the most awaited
 wishes from longtime.

 Regards,
 Jayanta

 On Monday, February 3, 2014, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
 sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

  Hi Rabindra,

 Thank you for writing in.

 I am replying as a top-post because I have copied in the mailing list
 we use to discuss project ideas (subscription interface should be
 available from <
 http://lists.ankur.org.in/listinfo.cgi/project-ideas-ankur.org.in>

 I have also added Jayanta Nath in the list. I met Jayanta yesterday
 (after a suitably long period of interactions over email) and, we
 ended up chatting about the usual - "how to crack this OCR issue in a
 manner that helps the Bengali Wikipedia community and, especially
 Wikisource"

 I am glad to note that you have taken a look at Abhishek's existing
 work. Have you been able to reach out to him and discuss in some level
 of detail the current state of the work? The voting piece is somewhat
 based on the concept that a larger number of users of the system can
 help train the system for higher degree of accuracy.

 ankur.org.in will be putting in an application as a mentoring
 organization. However, the acceptance in GSoC2014 is always subject to
 - [1] good set of project ideas; [2] reasonable success from previous
 year etc. So, there is a period of waiting before one gets to know
 about being selected as a mentoring organization and, thereafter
 begins the process of selecting strong applications from students.

 I would recommend that you spend this time catching up with Abhishek
 and also Jayanta in order to be able to understand a real-life
 utilization of your project (should ankur.org.in be selected and, you
 are accepted as a student)

 /sankarshan

 On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Rabindra Rakshit &lt;rovir2r(a)gmail.com&gt;
 wrote:
  I (Rabindra Rakshit), am interested in applying
for GSOC 2014, and would
 like to know if Ankur India is applying as a mentoring organization this
 year also.

 I am currently pursuing my B.tech in Computer Science(CSE) from College  of
  Engineering and Management, Kolaghat, and being
born a Bengali, would  love
  to see my language flourish in the open source
community.

 I am particularly interested in the project about Improving information
 retrieval methods for OCR data sets consisting of Indic scripts(Info
 Rescue). I had a look on the work plan of Abhishek Gupta, the final  voting
  system in a general(abstract) manner is yet to be
implemented.

 I don't have any exact experience about OCR, but I do have experience of
 working with Information Retrieval Systems, in fact, right now I am  working
  on Consensus Sequence Segmentation, an
Unsupervised Text Segmentation
 algorithm that relies entirely on statistical relationships among  alphabets
  in the input sequence to detect location of word
boundaries. I have  attached
  a document of our work which is still in
progress.

 Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3839 
 --
 sankarshan mukhopadhyay
 <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>