Justdial Challenge

Project Name : Spellchecker for Indian Words

Task 1

For spellchecking on Indian proper nouns (be it the name of a place or a person), the standard alphabet substitution are mostly inadequate, as it is observed that the presumed mis-spelling is often an attempt to transliterate to english a local pronunciation. If we can split words into phonetic primes and compare these rather than alphabets, it may be easier to suggest a correct spelling. The challenge is to develop a program that will do this. The program will take as input a list of standard Indian road names/place names along with common english dictionary words as dictionary. It will be able to take a user-input of a mis-spelt word or phrase and recommend closest matches. Any popular programming language is okay as long as it compiles/works on Linux using publicly available compilers/interpreter.

Each entry should be accompanied by a less than 1000 words text explaining the approach taken.

Task 2

Analyse the strengths and weakness of your product. Clearly define the target customer. Also describe the various ideas that can be employed to market the product.

For road names: you can get the list from openstreetmaps
IP rights: you have to publish the code in open-source under LGPL license. You can publish the code at sourceforge (not github or google code)

Register

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Submission

Mail the code, approach taken and the writeup of task 2 to jdcomp@ecell.in.

Timeline

Submissions Open: 19th January, 2012.
Submission Closes: 10th February, 2012.

Prizes

There will be at least two top awards : for the best work as evaluated by Justdial team and one by an academic judge. They would collect cash prizes of Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000 respectively.

The contest is open only for IIT Bombay students.

For any further queries, contact:

Ayush Agrawal
Ph : + 91 9769557690
Email: ayush@ecell.in