SMC Monthly Report: September 2024
EventsSMC WebsiteSMC new website launched in Bengaluru. Riya Sabu volunteered to initiate the new website,
Santhosh Thottingal designed and developed Word prediction generation algorithm for Malayalam. A Web interface is up for experiments. The algorithm is based on Markov Chain probability model and uses SMC Malayalam corpus.
Further details can be find from technical documentation and implementation from the source code repository.
Web interface of the Malayalam morphological analyzer rewamped with vue.js. The web app is now responsive and mobile friendly. Various mlmorph applications like spell checker, NER tool and analyzer can be chosen from the sidebar.
After a few bug fixes, Malayalam font Raghu Malayalam hits version 2.2.0. Raghu Malayalam can be downloaded from SMC fonts. Source of Raghu Malayalam is available at SMC Gitlab repo.
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
Python interface for malayalam morphological analyser got an update. This includes couple of minor bug fixes.
SMC volunteer and Free Software evangelist, Sruthi Chandran become Debian developer. She is the first woman who achieved the same. Her gpg key was included in debian-keyring package. Now packages signed with her gpg key will be accepted into Debian archive.