Sinhala Language Supportability of Crowdsourcing Frameworks & Text Mining of Free Flowing Sinhala Text Messages (SMS) for Social Apllications

Abstract

With the rapid changes to the society, lives of the people getting changed and complicated day by day. Apart from basic needs such as food, shelter and clothes, various new basic needs have come to play. Most important of them is information. It could be either raw information or processed knowledge. Sri Lanka is a developing country with majority of mother tongue speakers making them embrace the new technologies using Sinhala and Tamil languages. They wait for techniques to not only get the information easily but also contribute their knowledge. This project is focused on identifying a technique for people to participate easily with a web based Crowdsourcing system to contribute their opinions, especially using their mother tongue. The backbone of this project is the development of a web based Sinhala Crowdsourcing system, which is easily customizable to any UNICODE based language, including Tamil, as required. SMS technology is the most accessible and popular opinion gathering technique because of the wide usage in many communities. This would allow a large majority of the people of a given community to take part in information dissemination and gathering. Opinion Mining techniques are used to mine the ideas that are contributed by the people. Finally, the results are displayed in user friendly outputs to plant the essence of the content in people's minds swiftly. A Crowdsourcing system like this can ease the day-to-day activities of the public to a great deal. People get the opportunity to contribute their ideas and can see the different ideas of different individuals with different qualities. The processed knowledge can direct the public in the right direction quickly. Also, the quality of the society can be improved easily.