U.S. Linguistics Machine Learning Model

Read this document to understand the project layout.

Author: Hrishikesh Deshmukh - hcd3@illinois.edu

About

Despite all speaking the same language, there is a vast amount of variety in the continental United States in our lingustic tendencies and what we call day-to-day items! As you take this quiz, data collected from the Harvard Dialect Survey helps train the Machine Learning model to predict whether you are from the Northeast, South, Midwest, or Pacific/Rockies.

Dependencies

• Cmake
• Cinder
• Clang or gcc
• Dlib
• Catch2

This program was built and compiled in Ubuntu Linux and is written in C++ utilizing the IDE Clion (make sure you have your C compiler installed). However, all the dependencies listed above are compatible with Windows and MacOS, as well as Linux. Windows users should use Visual Studio 2015 for this repository. Use the links above to clone or download the corresponding repositories. It may seem intimidating but it's not that bad!

Linux

Cmake

$ mkdir build
$ cd build/
$ cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release

Dlib

$ git clone https://github.com/davisking/dlib

Keyboard Controls

Key	Action
n	Move to the next page
p	Move to the previous page
a	Select answer A
b	Select Answer B
c	Select Answer C
Right Arrow	Move to the next page
Left Arrow	Move to the previous page