Dictionary to learn Hindi words, their meanings, synonyms, antonyms and usage.
📖 HinDict 📖 - My new LLM powered project!
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I recently wanted to read Hindi literature, and I stumbled upon many words I didn't have in my vocabulary. I realized I am quick at reading Hindi, but slow at writing Hindi in Devanagari.
I wondered if there was an app where I could write Hindi in English / Latin alphabet (romanization) and obtain it's meaning and English equivalent. When I struggled to find one, I decided to embark on an NLP and LLM journey to make one myself.
I brushed up my skills with using open-source LLMs such as Llama3.2 and deploying them using Ollama inside a Docker container, and used prompt engineering to provide the user with a small succinct answer.
Built the front-end in Next.js and the back-end using Flask web framework.
Respond in one concise sentence without disclaimers or examples. Format: User word title-case, (user word in Hindi), refers to … (provide a definition in 5-15 words). Always conclude with this exact phrase: 'Closest English equivalent: (closest english equivalent single word)'. Do not omit this phrase under any circumstances.
Had to add the "Do not omit this phrase under any circumstances" because the model was hallucinating.
I'm pretty sure the LLM is overkill for this use-case (despite picking the small 3B parameter model), but I wanted to have fun building with LLMs. Currently fine-tuning a smaller model to save on costs.
Update: Decided to use OpenAI's api to save on costs and improve inference speed.
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