Vietnamese NLP - Introductions

[tiendung]

My name is Tien Dung,

I’m a ex-programmer live in Hanoi. I’m quite new to the field of deep learning but have some experience in NLP long time ago. I have some ideas to apply new approach to improve Vietnamese input method.

Just create a project for Flax/JAX at the link below. Please discuss to see if it’s a good problem to be solved.

Pre-train a Seq2Seq model for a Quick Vietnamese Input Method by mapping Ascii syllables that missing marke and tones to UTF-8 syllables. E.g. toi noi tieng Viet => tôi nói tiếng Việt

Problem: Most popular Vietnamese input method is Telex, that require additional keypress to create marks and tones for Vietnamese syllable. E.g: tooi => tôi, nois => nói, tieengs => tiếng, Vieetj => Việt. It’s work just fine it you have are using laptop, desktop that have a physical QWERTY keyboard (typing with 8 fingers). But it’s slow and error-prone while using smartphones (virtual keyboard typing with 2 fingers) or featured-phones (using T9 with only 0-9 keys). By using ML to map the minimal…