Santhosh Thottingal

The Malayalam morphology analyser(mlmorph) I am actively developing since 2016 is based on Stuttgart Finite State Transducer(SFST) formalism.

A new version of Manjari Malayalam typeface is available now.

I prepared a web frontend for Tesseract OCR to do optical character recognition for Malayalam - https://ocr.smc.org.in This application uses Tesseract.js, Javascript port of Tesseract.

In Malayalam, the Ya, Va and Ra consonant signs when appeared together has an interesting problem.

SMC had started a machine translation service at translate.smc.org.in for English-Malayalam.

In my previous blog post, I wrote about an experiment of using SVG path animation to help learn malayalam letter writing.

I wanted to make an educational typeface with writing directions in each glyphs.

https://spell.toolforge.org/ is a webservice providing spellcheck web API for 90 languages.

docs.thottingal.in is my personal knowledge space I try to document and share everything I know about this world in form of an online GitBook hosted on GitHub.

The test corpus for Malayalam Morphological analysis has many foreign words.

As more and more people enter to the Malayalam digital world, the issue of not having any formal training for Malayalam computing is more observed.

I just published a VS Code language extension to support syntax highlighting for Stuttgart Finite State Transducer (SFST) formalism to VS Code.

I just published a VS Code language extension to support OpenType feature files in the Adobe “AFDKO” format.

A new version of Malayalam spell checker based on mlmorph is available as python library.

A new version of Manjari typeface is available now.

Today(August 09, 2020), Tamil Virtual Academy organized a virual meetup on Tamil computing and its roadmap.

A rough drawing I did in 2014 November 20 and shared with my friends as a new font idea.

A new version of Manjari typeface is available now.

I prepared a web frontend for the Malayalam spellchecker based on the Malayalam morphology analyser.

While the COVID-19 pandemic is going on, Kerala free software communities started doing interview series with active contributors.

കേരളത്തിന്റെ സാക്ഷരതാപ്രസ്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ തുടർച്ചയായി സാർവത്രിക ഡിജിറ്റൽ സാക്ഷരതാ പദ്ധതിയ്ക്കായി ചില ശ്രമങ്ങൾ 2019 സെപ്റ്റംബർ മുതൽ ഞാൻ നടത്തിയിരുന്നു.

It has been more than a month since lockdown is announced in Kerala.

A new version of Manjari Malayalam typeface is available now.

A new version of Chilanka Malayalam typeface is available now.

Many months back, I started an experiment to see if Malayalam handwriting recognition can be done in a non-machine learning based approach.

On February 15, I attended the Professional student summit organized by higher education department of Kerala.

The Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) had published a Part of Speech(POS) tagset for Indian languages.

I presented the Malayalam Morphology Analyser at 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages- LORESMT Dublin, Ireland as part of 17th MT Summit.

Happy to share the news that I am awarded by President of India for contributions to Malayalam language.

On July 10,2019 ICANN released Label generation rules for eight scripts Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam.

I have been trying to generate a Markov chain for Malayalam content.

The web interface of Malayalam morphology analyser(mlmorph) is updated.

A new version of Chilanka typeface is available now.

One of the key components of Mlmorph is its lexicon.

A few months back, I wrote about the spellchecker based on Malayalam morphology analyser.

Named Entity Recognition, a task of identifying and classifying real world objects such as persons, places, organizations from a given text is a well known NLP problem.

Support for hyphenating in 11 Indian languages is now available in Scribus, desktop publishing system.

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is proud to announce Gayathri – a new typeface for Malayalam.

DNS over TLS is a security protocol that forces all connections with DNS servers to be made securely using TLS.

വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ പതിനെട്ടാം പിറന്നാളാണിന്ന്.

The Swanalekha transliteration based Malayalam input method is now available in Windows and Mac platforms.

ഭാഷാകമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയർ വികസനപ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളിൽ ഏർപ്പെടാൻ തുടങ്ങിയിട്ട് പത്തുവർഷമാകുന്നു. 2008 ൽ ഒക്കെയാണ് ഈ മേഖലയിൽ സജീവമാകുന്നതും പലതരം പ്രോജക്ടുകൾക്കായി സമയം നീക്കിവെച്ചു തുടങ്ങുന്നതും.

I am happy to announce the first version of Malayalam morphology analyser.

The Malayalam and Tamil Root Zone Label Generation Rules for International Domain names have been released for public comments.

My first attempt to develop a spellchecker for Malayalam was in 2007.

For the last several months, I am actively working on the Malayalam morphology analyser project.

Now a days GNU/Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc comes with pre-configured fonts for Malayalam.

നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടിലെ യുവാക്കൾ നേരിടുന്ന ഒരു പ്രതിസന്ധിയെപ്പറ്റിയും അതിന് പരിഹാരമായേക്കാവുന്ന ഒരാശയത്തെപ്പറ്റിയും എഴുതിയ ഒരു കുറിപ്പാണിതു്.

This is an attempt to list down all forms of Malayalam word ചിരി(meaning: ☺️, smile, laugh).

This is a quick tutorial on installing Mozhi input method in Windows 10.