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Student name:
Student number:
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Student No:
TP035242
Email Address:
khaallid@hotmail.com
Program Name:
Software Engineering
Title of project:
Algorithms
Other Areas
Machine Translation
Machine Learning
Computational Linguistics
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Instruction:
This is the draft proposal of your FYP which needs to be submitted to the project administrator by
hardcopy refer to your timeline for submission deadline.
1. Introduction
The use of modern technology touches every aspect of our lives from travel to
education; healthcare; entertainment; business and a lot more. However, it is the food
and restaurant industry that has seen little impact of this modern technology. Most of
the restaurants are still using manual processes to take orders from customers while
automated menus have proven efficient in saving time and money for restaurants. Quite
recently people are experiencing multicultural restaurants with coworkers and
customers of different cultural backgrounds and origins and one of the challenges posed
by this multiculturalism is communication barrier among diverse customers and
words and phrases from the source language to the target language without the
use intermediate resources in the translation process. This direct translation
method is simple to implement and requires less computational resource as there
is limited analysis of the syntactic structure of the phrase and words to be
translated (Tripathi & Sarkhel, 2010). The algorithms is to be implemented in
Java for higher performance compared to the other programming languages. It
also allows trivial code portability in different platforms (Cer & Galley, 2010).
3. Project Aims and Objectives
3.1. Aims
The research proposal has several aims; its main aim is to build a
natural language machine translation application that can be used to translate
food orders received from customers into the native language of the chefs
who are working in the restaurant. Similarly, this research proposal aims to
automate the current food order taking process
3.2. Objectives
To translate food orders from the source language which is the native
language of the customer to a specific target language which is the native
language of the chefs
4. Deliverables
iORDER is a kind of point of sale application which enables customers to order
food using their native language. It also enables chefs to receive orders in their
native language. Similarly, in case of waiters taking orders from customers,
iORDER enables waiters to record orders using their native language and
translates orders into the native language of chefs in the kitchen. The following
are some of the basic functions of iORDER:
Self-service application that allows customers to put on their orders in
their native language.
Allows waiters to record orders from customers using their native
language.
Translates orders to a specific target language i.e. the native language of
chefs
Sends orders to chefs
Prints translated orders
Calculates total bills
Generates receipt for customers