What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
The beginning of the week was spent adding finishing touches to the demo and example structure so that everything would go smoothly. I was able to demonstrate the spell-checking algorithm I had created and tested it on a small paragraph of words with errors. The algorithm showed strong promise in correcting incorrect words, but with the dictionary that I was using, there were a lot of words not included that caused correct words to be changed.
The demo also provided significant advice for moving forward in the future. Not only did I bring to light several of my own issues in the spell checking design, but the TAs and professors gave great feedback on improving going forward. One significant issue that I found in design was the probability of a character being incorrectly replaced with a space. If this happened it would be processed as two different words. Alongside this, we decided that it would be effective to add a pipeline that would pass on the most significantly incorrect characters based on the confidence level determined in Kevin’s classification. This will allow us to minimize the latency of error checking on the post-processing side by limiting our response to the specified characters provided. Given the initial 90% accuracy goal provided by Kevin, if 50 characters are analyzed, it would be reasonable to specify the top 5 lowest confidence characters and pass them to the spell-checking algorithm.
In addition to demo feedback, I tested an initial replacement of the dictionary method, by adding large english text to the file and parsing it for repetitions. This gives a very basic word probability that allows the algorithm to sort different choices rather than returning the first one that is found.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
We are currently still on track for the final product. We are hoping to get the full hardware integration as we want soon so that we can focus on developing the software to our liking.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Looking forward, there are several factors in the spell-checking algorithm that I would like to analyze and focus on ironing out. This includes the actual breakdown of the sentence so that it comes back together correctly, as well as embedding the classification data with mine so that it checks certain characters.