Natural language processing - Ideas for beginner's projects
- by Microkernel
Hi guys,
I am a beginner in NLP and NLTK. I am very interested in NLP and hence
joined a weekend course on AI in some local institution, which requires me
to do a project for completion of the course, and I decided to do it in NLP. The problem is,the instructor is not good at all for this course (According to me she
is just a charlatan) (or may not be very interested in teaching as
this is her last batch here after which the institute is going to send
her out). So I am stuck in a situation where where I got to finish
this project in a month to one and half months period, but as a naive
person in the field I am feeling it very difficult to comprehend the
things required to decide on project. (Also, as I am working full
time, I am not finding enough time to dedicate on this).
I considered using NLTK toolkit in python for the project for following reasons.
(1) Python is famous for ease of use, rapid prototyping and very active community (considering very short span of time I have, and as I am a C programmer by profession, I need a language that I can learn fast and is simple to use).
(2) NLTk has good review, and extensive documentation and a very active community.
So the problem is what project should I take up, so that I can learn something and will be able to finish project in time.
(I know almost nothing in NLP, don't even know what exactly corpora is... :( )
So, please suggest me some topics that I should consider for the project.
Regards,
MicroKernel :)