Computational Linguistic Team

The Computational Linguistic Team was constituted in C-DIT with the aim to function as the Malayalam Computing Solutions Provider to the Government of Kerala and various other agencies in Kerala. The main objective of the team is to integrate Malayalam with information and communication technologies. The central motto of the team is to globalize Malayalam through language technology for the benefit of the local users. At the product level, the idea is to produce linguistically and culturally customized software. The main areas of operation of the team are research, development, production, publication, training, consultancy and service in Malayalam language computing.

Major Projects

Aksharamaala CD	A font package incorporating 25 Malayalam fonts including 3 web fonts - a joint venture of C-DIT and C-DAC
Bharanamalayam	The CD incorporates commonly used administrative jargon in the native tongue. It also comprises telephone directory of the Government, the administrative glossary, gazettes published for Malayalam language, Government orders and circulars. It is an interactive CD facilitating the search of Malayalam equivalents of administrative terms with date, topic and numbers based search of all Government Orders of the concerned department
‘Nila’ Official Malayalam Software	‘Nila’ is the first phase of the ‘Mission Malayalam’ project. It has a Unicode 5.1 enabled text editor supporting all available formats (.doc, .rtf, .html, .txt). Apart from the standard functions, the editor has facilities for regular functions like formatting text, manipulation of tables, Malayalam e-mail facility, printing options etc. and also an exclusive function for sorting both natively and alphabetically. ‘Nila’ supports inscript, phonetic and typewriter keyboards. The conversion tool embedded in the editor enables the user to convert a document from ASCII (or ISCII) to Unicode. ‘Nila’ also has a set of Official templates, letter wizard, an official dictionary and a web linker. ‘Nila’ is freely downloadable from www.clickeralam.org.
‘Kaveri’ Free Malayalam Software	‘Kaveri is the second phase of the five year research and developmental program ‘Mission Malayalam’ for Malayalam language computing. ‘Kaveri’ which is the continuation of Nila has Malayalam’s first spell checker facility. It is the customized, localized and modified version of OpenOffice.org. The complete interface has been changed to Malayalam so that any native user can use the software without any difficulty. The integrated Malayalam Spell – Checker is the most notable feature of ‘Kaveri’. Like other word processing systems, ‘Kaveri’ will also underline misspelt words and gives suggestions. The Translation Assistant can perform English to Malayalam word by word translation which helps a user while preparing a document. The Multilingual keyboard of Kaveri supports Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam in two keyboard layouts – the Inscript and the Phonetic. The Indic language Transliteration helps in converting documents prepared in Malayalam to other language scripts like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi and at the same time from other language scripts into Malayalam. The Office Content Management System of Kaveri has facilities where a user can save a document as office copy including details like subject, date, sender and recipient. It helps easy retrieval of documents in Government Offices and Companies. The Administrative Glossary helps a Government employee to find the Malayalam equivalents of the English administrative terms used for official purposes. ‘Kaveri’ is freely downloadable from www.clickeralam.org.
`Arogyasree` Malayalam Typewriting Software	It is a Unicode enabled Malayalam text editor having all the standard functions like formatting text, manipulation of tables, printing options, merge files etc. It has a Malayalam typewriter keyboard, along with the Inscript and Phonetic keyboards and has customized official templates for Health Department, Government of Kerala.
Periyar Malayalam Community Software (Ongoing)	This is the third phase of the Mission Malayalam Developmental Programme. Malayalam Grammar Checker, Universal Font Convertor, Malayalam Thesaurus, Malayalam-English Dictionary, South Indian Language Dictionary are the main components of ‘Periyar’.

Services

I   www.clickeralam.org

    The first major work taken up by the Computational Linguistic Team is CLiCK (Centre for Linguistic Computing Keralam) website for the research, development, production and dissemination of Malayalam Language Technology and Software free of cost among the Malayalam speaking population. ‘Nila’ and ‘Kaveri’ Software, ‘Nila’ Unicode Malayalam fonts are freely downloadable from this website.

II   www.entemalayalam.org

    This interactive Malayalam tutorial website enables on-line learning, knowing, using and testing Malayalam through simple games, tests and also provides general information about the culture, history, literature and art forms of Kerala to the Non-Resident Keralites.

Software Development

Development of Malayalam resource software and products.

Other Activities

• Taking classes for Government Employees on Malayalam Software & Linguistic Computing at Institute for Management in Government.

• Participation in campaign programme for Promotion of Malayalam Computing among the populace.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 07 October 2009 13:03 )

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