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[kasun perera <kkasunperera@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Saptarshi

I have submitted my detailed proposal addressing above requirement to the
Melange system. I'm glad if you can give some feedback on my proposal.

Thanks


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Kasun,
>
> Thanks for your interest in DHIS2 and the SMS parsing project
> The proposal is quite short and its not clear to me the steps you plan to
> complete the project.
> Detailing what pattern matching means, how templates are generated, what
> do you mean by semi-automatic... will improve your proposal.
> Good luck for the proposal
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
>
>
>
> On 14 March 2014 09:14, kasun perera <kkasunperera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I'm a MPhil student at University of Colombo School of Computing. Also a
>> successful GSOCer for Dbpedia project last year. My current research
>> includes Information retrieval, NLP, Semantic web, Ontologies ect. I have
>> also done some research in the aria of Disaster management and ICT4D.
>>
>> I'm interested in above idea. I went through the some of the discussion
>> treads of above idea on the maling list and read the Saptarshi's and
>> Peder's replies.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Here is my draft proposal for above idea.
>>
>> In mobile environment target texts include many morphological variations
>> (e.g. blank omission, typos, word abbreviation). Parsing is not feasible
>> for messages in which both the syntax and the spelling are unreliable. So
>> my idea is to propose an alternative approach which uses pattern matching
>> rather than parsing. The idea is to try to effect the equivalent of a parse
>> by matching each SMS against a number of a patterns appropriate to the DHIS
>> data elements. The proposed approach would matches sentences with manually
>> generated templates initially (later to be extended semi-automatic
>> approach) to identify DHIS data elements and the data values associated
>> with them.
>>
>> e.g. template
>>
>> "The <DataEelement> of <<SomeValue/Element>> is <<DataValue>>"
>>
>>
>> Do you think this is a good way of achieving above task?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Kasun Perera
>>
>>
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-- 
Regards

Kasun Perera