On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> 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> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
