January 3, 2025

SMC Monthly Report: November -December 2024

Software and Tools

The detailed technical report on how it was implemented is published in Subin's blogpost.

Kavya Manohar presented her work 'What is lost in ormalization? Exploring Pitfalls in Multilingual ASR Model Evaluations' representing Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Digital University Kerala at the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Read here. Watch here.
The video recording of the conference presentation by Santhosh Thottingal at Grapholinguistics 2024 on Parametric type design in the era of variable and color fonts is now published.
Malayalam Verb Conjugation Table for Malayalam was Published by Kavya Manohar. It was automatically generated from the citation forms of verbs in Mlmorph using the generate feature of Mlmorph.
Repository: https://gitlab.com/kavyamanohar/verb-forms-ml
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/kavyamanohar/verb-forms-ml

Kerala Sree Award 2024, the state-level civilian awards instituted by the Government of Kerala is awarded to Narayana Bhattathiri (calligraphy).
Mathrubhumi published a special feature on the fusion of traditional calligraphy and font design from the veiwpoints of Rajeesh K V and Athul Jayaraman.

Anish A. delivered a talk at WordCamp Kerala 2024, on Malayalam Localization in WordPress held at Kozhikkode.
An interesting mention of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing was noted in the 2024 Malayalam movie I am Kathalan, with SMC laptop stickers.
The fourth edition of Wiki Conference India will be held in Kochi in 2025.
Wiki Conference Kerala 2024 was held at Kerala Agricultural University on 28 December 2024.
Wikimedia Foundation calls for the application of scholarships for attending Wikimania 2025.
State of the Map (SoTM) Kerala, the annual gathering of mapping enthusiasts in Kerala was held at College of Veterinary Science, Pookode, Wayanad, Kerala, India during November 16, 17, 2024