Candidate topics

• Identifying the geographic of a person based on his sentence formation.

• lyric translation from english to other language with meaningful sentences

• Automatic synthesizing of a constructed language

• Wikipedia page for NLP categories

• Stanford's Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing course.

  • Applying deep learning to NLP becomes a quite hot trend recently, though someone need to be familiar with machine learning techniques.

• Narrative generation

• Augmenting procedural content generation using NLP techniques, somewhat related to narrative generation

• Domain specific language to simplify integration of certain NLP tasks into applications.

• Document classification/recommendation methods that gives more control to its user.

  • For instance, we can split a single twitter timeline into multiple stream grouped by topic
  • Or we can filter out uninteresting tweets from certain timeline
  • Other features like account, retweet/share, like, conversation context could be used
    • Which means we have an opportunity to build a model upon this functionalities

• Choose some NLP systems tightly coupled to a specific language and generalize it.

• Develop a scoring algorithm for student-written short-answer responses.

  • The problem is that we don't have data set other than English

• SIGMORPHON 2016 Shared Task: Morphological Reinflection

• Similar projects, might be useful for evaluation of our project scope/size

  • CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
  • CS 229 Machine Learning Final Projects, Autumn 2013

• Transliteration system between languages

  • Stanford Phrasal: A Phrase-Based Translation System
  • Hangulize

• Language Identification

  • Identify which language is used for a given document
  • Well-defined problem with easy-to-find dataset (Wikipedia)
  • Still has a room to be improved