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Stylistic Alternates for ച്ച, ള്ള in Manjari and Chilanka fonts
The ligatures for the Malayalam conjuncts ച്ച, ള്ള have less popular variants as shown below The second form is not seen in print but often in handwritten Malayalam. I have seen it a lot in bus boards...
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Typoday 2018
Santhosh and I jointly presented a paper at Typoday 2018. The paper was titled ‘Spiral splines in typeface design: A case study of Manjari Malayalam typeface’. The full paper is available here. The...
View ArticleMalayalam morphology analyser – status update
For the last several months, I am actively working on the Malayalam morphology analyser project. In case you are not familiar with the project, my introduction blog post is a good start. I was always...
View ArticleMalayalam morphology analyser – First release
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...
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Swanalekha input method now available for Windows and Mac
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...
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വിക്കിപീഡിയയ്ക്ക് പതിനെട്ട്. നാലുലക്ഷം തർജ്ജമകളും
വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ പതിനെട്ടാം പിറന്നാളാണിന്ന്. അമ്പത്തെട്ടുലക്ഷം ലേഖനങ്ങളോടെ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിക്കിപീഡിയയും അറുപതിനായിരത്തോളം ലേഖനങ്ങളോടെ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയും ഒരുപാടു പരിമിതികൾക്കും വെല്ലുവിളികൾക്കുമിടയിൽ...
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Gayathri – New Malayalam typeface
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...
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Scribus gets hyphenation support for 11 Indian languages
Support for hyphenating in 11 Indian languages is now available in Scribus, desktop publishing system. Two years back I had written how Malayalam hyphenation support was added to Scribus. Later, I had...
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Malayalam Named Entity Recognition using 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. For Malayalam, there were...
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LibreOffice Malayalam spellchecker using mlmorph
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,...
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