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enicku oru pe venam. Beta is Already available. For a set of Malayalam Computing Utilities in Free Software Platform Check http://wiki.smc.org.in
  1. Chitrakudukka (Ethnic Clip-Art CD) by C-DIT (Completed)- Showcasing ethnicity, the first volume of Chithrakkudukka CD has over 2500 images with audio visual effects leaving behind a lingering feel of Kerala at its natural best. A bewildering variety of images in Kerala architecture, antique furniture, jewellery, pottery, religious accessories, paintings, sculptures, festivals, rituals, flowers, birds, animals, food, vehicles, personalities etc. revolving around the cultural taste of Kerala are part of this Clip Art CD. It has a friendly interface to conveniently view and copy images and also to play and copy sound clips. Sound clips based on classical raagas and also folk tunes and "mallu" favourites like "Vala Kilukkam" etc are available as MP3 clips. 3 Volumes have been published so far. Most DTP centres and graphic designers in Trivandrum and some in rest of Kerala use this extensively to add ethnic touch to their design.
  2. An optical character recognition software to digitize printed Malayalam text.: 2 Projects are going on Now. 1. Adding malayalaym support to Tesseract OCR(by google licensed under Apache License) Jinesh K from Swathanthra malayalam Computing is doing this. 2. An malayalam OCR Project funded by Ministry of Information technology is making good progress in CVIT, IIIT Hyderabd. Some Active developers from Swathanthra malayalam computing is also part of it . It will be released as a Free Software package. (Some work seems to have been done at CDAC called nayana, but it doesn't look like a free software. I'm currently offering at as an undergraduate project to a group of 4 students in my department, Deepak R, Lec in EC Dept, GEC Barton HIll)
  3. Voice Recognition Software for Malayalam- Sharika, a test suit build by shyam karanattu as a part of Swathanthra malayalam Computings Google summer of code 2007 is available on SMC's Git repository. It is still on early stage of development and only identify nearly 50 words. (Suggested by Sameer USA)
  4. A Malayalam spell checker : Aspell-ml package developed by santhosh Thottingal of SMC is available under all Free Software distributions. Work to add grammer rules is going on. ( Already developed as a part Kaveri project by CDIT in technical collaboration with OSSICS But Not usable).
  5. An on-line Malayalam dtictionary : SMC is porting Most of its Language Computing tools to Silpa (Swathanthra Indic Language Processing Applications) Web Frame work . The malayalam English dictionery Developed by Rajeesh nambiar of SMC (also available as Dict file to install in your computer) is also available as a part of silpa framework http://smc.org.in/silpa . ( Already developed as a part Kaveri project by CDIT in technical collaboration with OSSICS ).
  6. Malayalam Thesaurus
  7. Route Finder link.
  8. A complete software package handling financial transaction targeting self help groups including Kudumbasree. ( Similar projects are developed by OSSICS ).
  9. Vidyamithra, A school management solution for Kerala schools, developed by OSSICS, help sought for its implementation. This has not yet been implemented in any school. Inclusion of full fledged timetable modules etc. are possible student project topics. (See Schooltool project)
  10. Free GIS Based Projects - Some of these are already taken up by IRTC. But OSSICS is willing to provide help on them:An Interesting Projects on Free GIS : Resource map of Cheruvannoor Grama Panjayath Done by Jaisen http://cheruvannur.web4all.in/resources/
    • Asset Mapping of LSGIs using Free GIS.
    • Ground Water Level Mapping of LSGIs using GRASS GIS.
    • Waste management plan for Urban areas of Kerala using GRASS GIS.
    • Land use mapping of LSGIs using GRASS GIS.
    • Power distibution optimisation solution for KSEB using GRASS GIS
  11. Monitoring sea currents along near shore of Kerala using Nano-RFID substances so as to enable the prediction of 'Chakara' (e the prediction of 'Chakara' ( Suggested by Smitha B R, Project Assistant, National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi ).
    • Some Details: (From the mail sent by Anilkumar KV) I do not think methods to enable Chakara prediction is a project suitable for a single batch of under graduate students. It can be completed through a series of spill over academic projects. Currently ocean researchers depends costly buoys to monitor ocean parameters. Satellite data is available for certain extent, however not suitable for micro level analysis. Often the costly instruments and metal parts are stolen from buoys placed in the ocean. Another way of data collection is through cruises, which costs very high and require human presence in the ocean. From these facts, the idea of project might be came-up. The measurement is not limited to sea current alone, other parameters such as temperature, salinity, pressure, turbidity, luminosity etc. are also to be included in the scope. I am not sure of the extend to which the help will be available from NIO.
  12. Sanghamithra, An on-line banking solution for Co-operative banks, developed and implemented by OSSICS. Help sought for its further implementation. . It is being used in some co-operative banks and societies. The features yet to be implemented (and hence possible student project topics) include
    • Database Clustering
    • Load Balancing
  13. Enrich Malayalam Wikipedia
    1. Translate the contents of wikipedia in other languages.
    2. Transliterate soft copies of Malayalam documents in ASCII, ISCII, and non-standard fonts to Unicode font.: There is a software called payyans By SMC for ASCII<=>Unicode Conversion
  14. Translation of various Swathanthra software interface to Malayalam. To be resulted in complete Malayalam interface for GNOME and KDE desktop. It is better to add Malayalam / Indic specific feature to Openoffice. [This is already Completed by Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. Gnome 2.16 onwards Officially supports Malayalam. KDE 4.1 Onwards also Officially malayalam Supported. All Rendering issues were solved in Gnome/KDE/Openoffice/Mozilla]The features of Kaveri are envisaged to extend further in 'Periyar' to be developed by CDIT, which will attempt to incorporate, Malayalam grammar check, Malayalam TTS (Santhosh Thottingal from SMC added Malayalam Support to Dhvani project, in which he is a Core developer. Now Dhvani supports 16 Indic languages from Malyam to Pushtuni), enhancement the translation assistant of Kaveri, Transliteration between different standards of fonts ( ASCII, ISCII, UNICODE)( Payyans Project of SMC with its various Front Ends like Chattans & kuttans already fully functional for bidirectional conversion between ASCII & Unicode) etc. As Periyar is a customisation of Openoffice, its usage will be wide spread in the society.
  15. Solution for Malayalam font rendering in Mozilla based browsers on GNU/Linux OS. (It is already working, see padma extension for mozilla, it convert any font encoding to unicode. Mozilla uses pango to render unicode. Any error shown is the error in pango, and need to be corrected there) . All rendering issues in Mozilla Firefox & Pango were solved by SMC
  16. Translation of Help files of Swathanthra software to Malayalam, with priority for Openoffice.Join volunteers in SMC Wiki & List
  17. Coco Pistol **link** (Suggested by Dr. Achuthsankar S Nair) Tender coconut stalls often have no idea of the tenderness of the coconuts until they cut open and until the buyer tastes, some times we get totally un-sweet water, sometimes the tenderness is not there, it is almost mature coconut. Maybe even when they pluck, they are not very clever at identifying the lot which is just ready (or is it that they cheat once in a while). Coco Pistol would be a small hand-held pistol. We hold the pistol on the husk and shoot, with the help of a radar like operation, it will find out the ripeness in months and display it as a digit somewhere on the pistol. This could be used before plucking the coconuts, or be provided by the sellers to the customers to choose the nut they want.
  18. A Malayalam text-to-speech(TTS) engine
    1. The Best TTS in malayalam So far is Dhvani Indic TTS ,Developed by Santhosh Thottingal from SMC& Ramesh hariharan from IIsc. Itl got FOSS India award in 2008
    2. **link** (Added by Anash) : Implemented in TKM College of Engineering, Kollam as a final year BTech Project in year 2003.
    3. **link** Initiatives in Malayalam TTS at CDAC, CDIT and CE,Tvpm
  19. A document comparison plugin for comparing "Malayalam documents" (Added by Anash) - this one could be a useful plugin like the Malayalam thesaurus mentioned above.
  20. A crop-tracking program (Added by Anash) that can track the crops of the state-like the places where a given crop is being cultivated, the time of harvest, farmers registered as producing this crop, the possible markets for this crop, details of the diseases and pests that can infest them, the market price etc, plus facilities to bring the dealers and the farmers together. This is best implemented as a portal. This project, if combined properly with assistance from the Agricultural dept, could help the government, farmers and the market itself. Such projects exist in the market, but haven't come across any free version so far.
  21. Malayalam Wiki- A wiki website where people can write in malayalam- Sameer USA (ml.wikipedia.org?)
  22. Combatting Mosquitoes (Suggested by Dr. Achuthsankar S Nair) Does any one know of any research going on in combatting mosquitoe menace ? Apart from commonsensical (but not sufficient) approach of keeping environment clean and using repelleants (harmful to humans), we must think of "fatal attractors" for mosquitoes. I understand that they are attracted to light of certain colors. What about some sort of high frequenzy sound ? Or artificially producing smell of human sweat ? When I get crazy with mosquito bites, I dream about a small machine as big as a flower vase which will attract mosquitoes and as soon as it enters the vase, gets stuck to the sticky sheet laid out for it.
    • Mosquito Magnet link - Uses a humanlike scent to attract mosquitoes before using a vacuum cleaner-type device to suck them in to their death.
    • Wi-Fi Based Mosquito Magnet - Now the company plans to take things a step further by creating a self-diagnosing wirelessly controlled mesh of “Mosquito Magnets”, according to an article at CNet. Centralised servers sitting at the heart of an 802.11b wireless network will monitor conditions such as air quality, humidity and wind direction and determine whether to switch the “magnets” on or off.
    • Solar Mosquito Destroyer: Recently, a patent was awarded for the design of a solar mosquito destroyer. It works by attracting mosquitos towards a place where they would be exposed to the Sun, and they get killed due to the heat of the Sun as they have very little resistance to heat. A news article about this invention appeared in the Hindu Business Line on April 27th.
  23. Machine Translation - **link**English to Malayalam and Malayalam to English. (Added by Deepak P) Machine Translation link is the process of converting documents from one language to another automatically. Popular approaches are either dictionary based or statistical. Statistical techniques require a huge (the bigger the better) parallel corpus, i.e., a set of english text and corresponding malayalam text (with sentence to sentence correspondence). I am unsure whether we have something of that readily available. But the techniques for statistical machine translation are very general and hence can be applied to Malayalam in a straightforward manner. Having such a system and playing with it may reveal the special tuning, if any, required for malayalam. Examples of machine translation systems include Google Translate which does not have Malayalam yet. The applications of such a system would be numerous.
  24. Malayalam Linguistic Coloring - **link** (from Dr. Achuthsankar's Research Group) - Manglish, english text containing some malayalam words written in english script is becoming popular in various domains such as sms texts, email messages and such things. This contributes a new form of noise which is markedly different from other usual forms of noise such as typos, fillers (oh, eh..etc) and hence has to be dealt independently. Malayalam Linguistic coloring is about identifying such noise in Manglish text. An implementation using Markov Models is being developed by Dr. Achuthsankar's research group.
  25. Remote Administration of tranquillizer to mad elephants(by Achuthsankar S Nair): We hear of hours of agony of mahouts and also onlookers when elephants go mad and then everyone waits for the vet to come and shoot a tranquilizer. Could we think of a kind of Locket worn by the elephant with has a tranqulizer injecter ready to fire with a electronic remote control. The mahouts can always keep the control with them and administer the drug anytime themselves. Whether the drug can be stored for at least a few days is a problem. It will need to be recharged if required.
  26. Telephone to VoiceMail Services for contacting the Pravaasi - **link** With the increasing number of pravaasy malayalis in various parts of the world, esp. the Gulf, the need for cost-effective frequent communication arises. The disparities such as much better internet accessibility among the pravaasis and special conditions such as very high density of telephone connections in Kerala and the high number of calls from Kerala to certain areas such as the Gulf pose some interesting challenges in this regard. The idea is to enable one-way communication from Kerala to places like the Gulf from the telephone lines in Kerala to the Internet Access Centers in such areas (thru the recipient's mail boxes). The link contains the skeleton idea of implementing such a one-way communication, but as to how the reverse communication can be automated in a similar manner is still an open issue.
  27. Minor Software: MCQ Setter: A software with both English and malayalam editing facility in which teachers can enter mutiple choice questions with answers and even possible explanations for each answer choice. Once questions are entered, the software can be asked to format a QP with choices randomly changed in position with a unique code word for QP and also an answer key for each type produced. This would be of great help to teachers who plan to use computers for setting QP. It can also have a facility to set traditional QPs in which marks, total, choices etc will be checked by the software. (Achuthsankar)

Contact Details of Certain Organizations Involved:
  1. Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) http://smc.org.in
    • Join & Contact smc-discuss@googlegroups.com
  2. OSSICS (Open Software Solutions) - http://www.ossics.com
  3. GRASS GIS -FreeGIS India, http://grass.itc.it.
  4. IRTC (Integrated Rural Technology Center) - http://www.irtc.org.in/
  5. NIO (National Institute of Oceanography) - http://www.nio.org/
  6. CDIT (www.cdit.org)
  7. Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala (www.cbi.keralauniversity.edu)



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Somebody had posted an item on this page about Vidyamitra and that help is being sought for its further implemention. It would be very helpful if somebody can post the name and contact details of the contact person for the same.
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DARPA's Dream - Ultimate Language Translation: an interesting link
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