[Ilugc] Tamil computing and open source

  • From: sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@xxxxxxxxx (Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
  • Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:29:14 +0530

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
<sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com> 
wrote:

we need more computer professionals to learn linguistic skills. Tamil needs
lot of tools like corpus, spell checkers, grammar checker, morphological,
lexican analyzer etc.
we have to create these tools and release them as free open source software.

The issue is not limited to Tamil. Almost all the Indian languages
require these. The awkward part is that these are long running
"research" projects at various academic institutions and so there
hasn't been a strong effort to turn the codebase into working
products/prototypes. For example, the LTRC at IIIT-HYD,
<http://web2py.iiit.ac.in/research_centres/default/view_area/3> does a
lot such work as does CVPR, ISI Kolkata and IIT-Kharagpur.

And, it would be unfair if I did not mention
<http://thottingal.in/blog/2009/06/16/announcing-project-silpa/> where
Santhosh is actually looking for volunteers.

-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

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