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I have been trying to generate a Markov chain for Malayalam content. A Markov chain is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event.(wikipedia). For natural language, it represents a probabilistic model of words- the probability that one word can come after another word. This model can be prepared by feeding large amount of text to system that learns the probabilities of each words. ...

The web interface of Malayalam morphology analyser(mlmorph) is updated. You can see new interface at https://morph.smc.org.in/. The new web application is written in vuejs using vuetify UI framework. The backend is flask. Source code is available at https://gitlab.com/smc/mlmorph-web Morphology analysis Morphology generator Named entity recognition Spellchecker Number spellout

A new version of Chilanka typeface is available now. Version 1.400 is available for download from SMC’s font download and preview site smc.org.in/fonts For users, there is not much changes, but the source and code build system got a major upgrade. Source code updated to UFO format from fontforge sfd format. This allows to work with modern font editors. Use cubic beziers for master design, generate OTF along with TTF. The original drawings for Chilanka was using cubic beziers. fontmake is used for building the ttf and otf, similar to the latest font projects by SMC fontbakery is used for tests, all tests are passing now Added a few important latin glyphs missing, reported by fontbakery

One of the key components of Mlmorph is its lexicon. The lexicon contains the root words categorized as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs etc. These are the components used with morphological rules to generate the vocabulary of Malayalam. I collected initial lexicon with about 100,000 words from various sources such as Wikipedia, CLDR and many targeted web crawls. One problem with such collected words is they often contains spelling mistakes. Secondly, classifying these words is not possible without the tedious task of a person going through each and every words. ...

A few months back, I wrote about the spellchecker based on Malayalam morphology analyser. I was also trying to intergrate that spellchecker with LibreOffice. It is not yet ready for any serious usage, but if you are curious and would like to help me in its further development, please read on. Malayalam spellchecker – a morphology analyser based approach Blog post on spellchecker approach and pla Current status The libreoffice spellchecker for Malayalam is available at https://gitlab.com/smc/mlmorph-libreoffice-spellchecker. You need to get the code using git checkout or download the master version as zip file ...

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is proud to announce Gayathri – a new typeface for Malayalam. Gayathri is designed by Binoy Dominic, opentype engineering by Kavya Manohar and project coordination by Santhosh Thottingal. This typeface was financially supported by Kerala Bhasha Institute, a Kerala government agency under cultural department. This is the first time SMC work with Kerala Government to produce a new Malayalam typeface. ...

The Swanalekha transliteration based Malayalam input method is now available in Windows and Mac platforms. Thanks to Ramesh Kunnappully, who wrote the keyman implementation. I wrote this input method in 2008. At those days SCIM was the popular input method for Linux. Later it was rewritten for M17N and used with either IBus or FCITX. A few years later, this input method was made to available in Android using Indic keyboard. Last year, due to requests from Windows and Mac users, Chrome and Firefox extensions were prepared. Thanks to SIL Keyman, now we made it available in those operating systems as well. ...

I am happy to announce the first version of Malayalam morphology analyser. After two years of development, I tagged version 1.0.0 . In this release In this release, mlmorph can analyse and generate malayalam words using the morpho-phonotactical rules defined and based on a lexicon. We have a test corpora of Fifty thousand words and 82% of the words in it are recognized by the analyser. A python interface is released to make the usage of library very easy for developers. The library is available in pypi.org – https://pypi.org/project/mlmorph/ Installing it is very easy: ...

This is an attempt to list down all forms of Malayalam word ചിരി(meaning: ☺️, smile, laugh). For those who are unfamiliar with Malayalam, the language is a highly inflectional Dravidian language. I am actively working on a morphology analyser(mlmorph) for the language as outlined in one of my previous blogpost. I prepared this list as a test case for mlmorph project to evaluate the grammar rule coverage. So I thought of listing it here as well with brief comments. ...

Santhosh and I presented a paper on ‘Malayalam orthographic reforms: impact on language and popular culture’ at Graphematik conference held at IMT Atlantique, Brest, France. Our session was chaired by Dr. Christa Dürscheid. The paper we presented is available here. The video of our presentation is available in youtube. Grafematik is a conference, first of its kind, bringing together disciplines concerned with writing systems and their representation in written communication. There were lot of interesting talks on various scripts around the world, their digital representation, role of Unicode, typeface design and so on. All the talk videos are available in the conference website.