Correspondence with Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Posted on November 24, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
On October 2, 2018, I reached out to the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights. My letter highlighted the urgent need for parental guidance and content ratings on TV programs for children. Many shows broadcasted lack age-appropriate warnings, exposing children to inappropriate content like vulgar language, violence, and negative portrayals of family and gender roles. This issue, I argued, required intervention in line with practices in any civilized society.
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ആം ചിഹ്നം ഫോണ്ടുകളിൽ
Posted on October 4, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
ഏറെക്കാലമായി പലരും ചോദിക്കുന്ന ഒരു സംശയമാണ് അക്കങ്ങളുടെ കൂടെ ആം ചിഹ്നം എഴുതുമ്പോൾ വരുന്ന കുത്തുവട്ടം എങ്ങനെ കളയാമെന്ന്. 16-ാം, 18ാം തുടങ്ങിയ ഉദാഹരണങ്ങൾ. ഒട്ടുമിക്ക അപ്ലിക്കേഷനുകളുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പുകളിലും ഈ പ്രശ്നം കാണില്ല. ലിബ്രെഓഫീസിൽ പക്ഷേ ഈ പ്രശ്നം തുടരുന്നുണ്ട്. ഇതിനു പരിഹാരമായി ഫോണ്ടുകളിൽ ഒരു ചെറിയ പുതുക്കൽ നടത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. മഞ്ജരി, ഗായത്രി, ചിലങ്ക, നൂപുരം ഫോണ്ടുകളുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പുപയോഗിച്ചാൽ ഈ പ്രശ്നം ഒഴിവാകും. പുതിയ പതിപ്പുകൾ smc.org.in/fonts എന്ന പേജിൽ നിന്നെടുക്കാം.
MetaPost previewer
Posted on October 4, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
I created a simple MetaPost playground website mpost.thottingal.in where people can quickly write MetaPost code and preview the result.
This avoids the need of setting up MetaPost in your computer. Your edits in the code will be automatically executed.
This is part of exploration to use MetaPost for typeface design. Checkout the Nupuram and Malini typefaces designed using MetaPost. I also started a repository of various type design concepts illustrated using MetaPost: https://github.
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Wikimania 2023
Posted on October 4, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
I attended Wikimania 2023, an annual conference of people working on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This year’s conference was at Singapore.
State of Machine Learning on the Wikimedia projects I presented a talk titled “State of Machine Learning on the Wikimedia projects”. Machine learning is used in many Wikimedia projects. This talk was be round up of various projects that use ML. I talked about:
How Machine learning is used in our project, the benefits and impact.
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sentencex: Empowering NLP with Multilingual Sentence Extraction
Posted on October 4, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
Sentence segmentation is a fundamental process in natural language processing. It involves breaking down a given text into individual sentences, a task that finds applications in various contexts. Whether you need to split a paragraph into sentences for further analysis or present sentence boundaries in a user-friendly frontend application, sentence segmentation is crucial.
At first glance, identifying sentence boundaries might seem straightforward – just look for a period or full stop.
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Natural language question answering in Wikipedia - an exploration - Part 4
Posted on September 19, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
I wrote about the exploration on Natural language querying for wikipedia in previous three blog posts.
In Part 1, I was suggesting that building such a collection of question and answers can help natural language answering. One missing piece was actually suggesting an answer for a new question that is not part of QA set for article.
In Part 2, I tried using distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad with ONNX optimization to answer the questions.
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Natural language question answering in Wikipedia - an exploration - Part 3
Posted on July 21, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
I wrote about the exploration on Natural language querying for wikipedia in previous two blog posts.
In Part 1, I was suggesting that building such a collection of question and answers can help natural language answering. One missing piece was actually suggesting an answer for a new question that is not part of QA set for article.
In Part 2, I tried using distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad with ONNX optimization to answer the questions.
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Natural language question answering in Wikipedia - an exploration - Part2
Posted on March 25, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
A few days back I posted an experiment on Natural language querying for wikipedia by generating questions and answers. I was suggesting that building such a collection of question and answers can help natural language answering. One missing piece was actually suggesting an answer for a new question that is not part of QA set for article.
As a continuation of that experiment, I was exploring various options for answering questions.
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Natural language question answering in Wikipedia - an exploration
Posted on March 10, 2023
| Santhosh Thottingal
In this blog post I explain the prospects of providing questions and answers as an additional content format in wikipedia and a human-in-the-loop approach for that with a prototype.
Introduction Wikipedia is a hub for curiosity, with people visiting the site in search of answers to their questions. However, they typically arrive at Wikipedia via intermediaries such as search engines, which direct them to the relevant article. While Wikipedia’s keyword-based search function can be helpful, it may not be sufficient for addressing more complex natural language queries.
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Introducing Nupuram, new Malayalam typeface
Posted on October 5, 2022
| Santhosh Thottingal
I am happy to introduce Nupuram, a new Malayalam typeface that I have been designing and developing for several months. The typeface is not ready for a stable release, but pre-release versions are available for early testing.
Nupuram is a superfamily typeface. Nupuram variable font Taking full advantage of variable font technology, Nupuram offers an unprecedented level of flexibility, all from a single font file. Nupuram has 4 variation axes: Weight, Width, Slant and Softness.
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