# Blogs **URL:** https://community.smc.org.in/c/news/blog-posts/13.md?page=1 [Latest](https://community.smc.org.in/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.smc.org.in/categories.md) **Page:** 2 --- ## [Foreign Word Detection, Malayalam Writing Learning Portal and More: SMC Monthly Updates Oct 2020](https://community.smc.org.in/t/foreign-word-detection-malayalam-writing-learning-portal-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-oct-2020/338)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/foreign-word-detection-malayalam-writing-learning-portal-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-oct-2020/338 "2020-11-28T15:55:06Z")
Python library for Malayalam morphological analyzer - mlmorph released version 1.2.2 with foreign-language word detection. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.smc.org.in/smc-mo… --- ## [Regarding Rachana, the font](https://community.smc.org.in/t/regarding-rachana-the-font/337)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/regarding-rachana-the-font/337 "2020-11-28T07:53:00Z")
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is a community organization that has been around since 2002, contributing to Malayalam language and its journey into the digital age through fonts and tools. We have spoken up on matters… --- ## [Root Zone Label generation rules for Malayalam released](https://community.smc.org.in/t/root-zone-label-generation-rules-for-malayalam-released/335)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/root-zone-label-generation-rules-for-malayalam-released/335 "2020-11-18T21:37:45Z")
On July 10,2019 ICANN released Label generation rules for eight scripts Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam. Oriya, Tamil, Telugu. These rules are criteria for determining valid Domain Names for the Root… --- ## [Foreign word detection in mlmorph](https://community.smc.org.in/t/foreign-word-detection-in-mlmorph/334)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/foreign-word-detection-in-mlmorph/334 "2020-11-15T17:57:19Z")
The test corpus for Malayalam Morphological analysis has many foreign words. They are either written in a non-Malayalam script or written in Malayalam. For example, “ഇലക്ട്രിസിറ്റി”, “ഡോക്സ്”, “ഇന്റർമീഡിയറ്റ്”, “അബ്സ്ട്ര… --- ## [SMC Monthly Report: June 2018](https://community.smc.org.in/t/smc-monthly-report-june-2018/333)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/smc-monthly-report-june-2018/333 "2020-11-13T03:38:27Z")
Monthly working report for June, 2018. SMC presented a paper on impacts of orthographic reformations in Malayalam at Grafematik-18, updates on Malayalam Morphological Analyser, Font development workflow etc. This is… --- ## [We did it again !](https://community.smc.org.in/t/we-did-it-again/332)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/we-did-it-again/332 "2020-11-10T07:41:15Z")
This is the third time we are mentoring and we had five projects this time around. SMC has been around for 12 years now, and we have came a long way from being a small community of people working together for bringing Ma… --- ## [Consultation: Net Neutrality: Bottom-up Perspectives](https://community.smc.org.in/t/consultation-net-neutrality-bottom-up-perspectives/331)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/consultation-net-neutrality-bottom-up-perspectives/331 "2020-11-10T01:25:05Z")
Half-day Consultation 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 22 April 2015, Mascot Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.smc.org.in/net-neutrality-consultation/ --- ## [എസ്എംഎസ് തീവെട്ടിക്കൊള്ള; നഷ്ടക്കച്ചവടം കല്ലുവച്ചനുണ](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/330)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/330 "2020-11-09T16:15:00Z")
സെബിൻ ഏബ്രഹാം ജേക്കബ് ഓപ്പൺ ഇന്റർനെറ്റും ന്യൂട്രാലിറ്റിയും: തർക്കങ്ങളുടെ പിന്നാമ്പുറം എന്ന ലേഖനത്തിന്റെ രണ്ടാംഭാഗം This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.smc.org.in/sms\_is\_outright\_… --- ## [Google Summer of Code 2016](https://community.smc.org.in/t/google-summer-of-code-2016/329)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/google-summer-of-code-2016/329 "2020-11-08T14:47:50Z")
Indic Project participated in the Google Summer of Code program this year and we had 7 students working with us for months as a part of it. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.sm… --- ## [Joint response from Indic Project and SMC to TRAI Consultation on Differential Pricing](https://community.smc.org.in/t/joint-response-from-indic-project-and-smc-to-trai-consultation-on-differential-pricing/328)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/joint-response-from-indic-project-and-smc-to-trai-consultation-on-differential-pricing/328 "2020-11-08T06:33:17Z")
Swathanthanthra Malayalam Computing and our Indic Project submitted a joint response to the TRAI Consultation Paper No. 8/2015, on Differential Pricing for Data Services. This is a companion discussion topic for the or… --- ## [LibreOffice Malayalam spellchecker using mlmorph](https://community.smc.org.in/t/libreoffice-malayalam-spellchecker-using-mlmorph/327)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2020, 7:17am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/libreoffice-malayalam-spellchecker-using-mlmorph/327 "2020-11-07T07:17:38Z")
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, but if you are cu… --- ## [ഡെബിയന്‍ ജെസ്സി റിലീസ് പാര്‍ട്ടി](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/326)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/326 "2020-11-06T19:08:53Z")
ഡെബിയന്‍ റിലീസ് പാര്‍ട്ടി സംഘാടകര്‍ സുഹൃത്തുക്കളേ, അറിവിന്റെ സ്വതന്ത്രമായ ഒഴുക്കിനു് തടയിടുകയെന്നാല്‍ സമൂഹത്തിന്നാകെ എല്ലാ തരത്തിലും ഉണ്ടാകേണ്ടുന്ന പുരോഗതിയെയാണു് തടയിടുന്നതെന്നു ഞങ്ങൾ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു. അറിവിന്റെ മറ്റൊരു … --- ## [SMC's statement on proposed amendment of Kerala Police Act (118-A) and its implications](https://community.smc.org.in/t/smcs-statement-on-proposed-amendment-of-kerala-police-act-118-a-and-its-implications/325)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/smcs-statement-on-proposed-amendment-of-kerala-police-act-118-a-and-its-implications/325 "2020-11-02T17:30:17Z")
in reference to the press release dated 21st October 2020\[1\] regarding the amendment to the Kerala Police Act, 2011 This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.smc.org.in/statement-on-pr… --- ## [സ്വതന്ത്രസോഫ്‌റ്റ്‌വെയറും അതിനപ്പുറവും- II: റിച്ചാര്‍ഡ് സ്റ്റാള്‍മാന്‍](https://community.smc.org.in/t/ii/323)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/ii/323 "2020-10-31T19:39:15Z")
സ്വതന്ത്ര 2014 കോണ്‍ഫറന്‍സില്‍ ഡോ. റിച്ചാര്‍ഡ് സ്റ്റാള്‍മാന്‍ നടത്തിയ മുഖ്യപ്രഭാഷണത്തിന്റെ പൂര്‍ണ്ണരൂപം മൂന്നുഭാഗങ്ങളായി പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിയ്ക്കുന്നു . This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://b… --- ## [Malayalam Named Entity Recognition using morphology analyser](https://community.smc.org.in/t/malayalam-named-entity-recognition-using-morphology-analyser/322)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/malayalam-named-entity-recognition-using-morphology-analyser/322 "2020-10-27T03:33:18Z")
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 several research paper… --- ## [MOSS Award for Indic Keyboard, Malayalam Support in LyX, NER using mlmorph and More: SMC Monthly Updates Mar 2019](https://community.smc.org.in/t/moss-award-for-indic-keyboard-malayalam-support-in-lyx-ner-using-mlmorph-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-mar-2019/321)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/moss-award-for-indic-keyboard-malayalam-support-in-lyx-ner-using-mlmorph-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-mar-2019/321 "2020-10-24T13:31:05Z")
Indic Keyboard - Free/libre, privacy aware keyboard for android devices which supports 23 Indic family of languages and 57 layouts - has been awarded the prestigious Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) award. This is a… --- ## [സ്വനലേഖ ഇനി വിൻഡോസിലും മാക്കിലും](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/320)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/320 "2020-10-20T03:37:35Z")
ലിനക്സിലെ സ്വനലേഖ എന്ന ടൈപ്പിങ്ങ് ടൂൾ ഇനി വിൻഡോസിലും മാക്കിലും ലഭ്യമാകും. ലിപ്യന്തരണം(Transliteration) സമ്പ്രദായം ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ഈ എഴുത്തുപകരണം ലിനക്സ് ഉപയോക്താക്കൾക്കിടയിൽ വളരെ പ്രചാരത്തിലുള്ളതാണ്. കീമാൻ എന്ന ടൂളിന്റെ സ… --- ## [Malayalam Machine Translation, OSM Activities and More: SMC Monthly Updates September 2020](https://community.smc.org.in/t/malayalam-machine-translation-osm-activities-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-september-2020/319)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/malayalam-machine-translation-osm-activities-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-september-2020/319 "2020-10-18T03:12:58Z")
Santhosh Thottingal released an experimental English-Malayalam translation tool. The system uses OPUS MT language models along with HuggingFace transformers. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry … --- ## [Year in review: 2019](https://community.smc.org.in/t/year-in-review-2019/318)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/year-in-review-2019/318 "2020-10-13T12:22:00Z")
The biggest news in 2019 has to be Janayugom's move to Scribus - this is a landmark event since this is the first time an entirely free software based stack is used to produce a newspaper in Malayalam. This is a compan… --- ## [Magisk Malayalam Fonts v2.0, Calamares Localization and More: SMC Monthly Updates September 2019](https://community.smc.org.in/t/magisk-malayalam-fonts-v2-0-calamares-localization-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-september-2019/317)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/magisk-malayalam-fonts-v2-0-calamares-localization-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-september-2019/317 "2020-10-12T14:43:35Z")
The Magisk module for Malayalam fonts in the Magisk manager is updated to version 2.0. This update enables the use of popular SMC Malayalam fonts like Manjari, Gayathri, Rachana and Meera in Android. The v2.0 update brin… --- ## [mlmorph Initial Release, New Manjari Package for Arch linux and more: SMC Monthly Update for November 2018](https://community.smc.org.in/t/mlmorph-initial-release-new-manjari-package-for-arch-linux-and-more-smc-monthly-update-for-november-2018/316)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/mlmorph-initial-release-new-manjari-package-for-arch-linux-and-more-smc-monthly-update-for-november-2018/316 "2020-10-11T18:56:29Z")
!\[\](upload://metkIuA8kxCVy9nqZ0qabUGVi5q.png) mlmorph - Malayalam Morphological analyzer's first stable release, v1.0.0 is available now. The analyzer offers about 80% accuracy. mlmorph is available as a python package… --- ## [ഓപ്പൺ ഇന്റർനെറ്റും ന്യൂട്രാലിറ്റിയും: തർക്കങ്ങളുടെ പിന്നാമ്പുറം](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/315)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/315 "2020-10-10T06:53:34Z")
സെബിൻ ഏബ്രഹാം ജേക്കബ് നെറ്റ് ന്യൂട്രാലിറ്റി സംബന്ധിച്ച തീരുമാനം കൈക്കൊള്ളുന്നത മൂന്നു കമ്മിറ്റികളാണുള്ളത്. ടെലികോം റെഗുലേറ്ററി അഥോറിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഇന്ത്യ (TRAI) മൂന്നുമാസം മുമ്പ് പൊതുജനങ്ങളോട് 21 ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ ഉന്നയിച്ചു. വെറും … --- ## [Policy brief for Indian Language Support in Mobile devices](https://community.smc.org.in/t/policy-brief-for-indian-language-support-in-mobile-devices/314)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/policy-brief-for-indian-language-support-in-mobile-devices/314 "2020-10-10T05:49:41Z")
Anivar A Aravind Prepared for ICFOSS and Swathanthra Malayalam Computing as a part of DIT-ICFOSS R&D project and submited to DieTy in January 2015 This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http… --- ## [IndiaOS, KDE Conf and GSOC: SMC Monthly Updates January 2020](https://community.smc.org.in/t/indiaos-kde-conf-and-gsoc-smc-monthly-updates-january-2020/313)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/indiaos-kde-conf-and-gsoc-smc-monthly-updates-january-2020/313 "2020-10-07T04:11:18Z")
The first edition of open source conference IndiaOS held at Bengaluru on 18th of January. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.smc.org.in/smc-monthly-report-january-2020/ --- ## [ദേവഗിരി കോളേജില്‍ മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ് ഏകദിന ശില്പശാല നടത്തി](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/312)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/topic/312 "2020-10-06T22:23:50Z")
06/10/2015നു് ചൊവ്വാഴ്ച കോഴിക്കോടു് ദേവഗിരി സെയിന്റ് ജോസഫ്‌സ് കോളേജ് (ദേവഗിരി കോളേജ്) ലൈബ്രറിയും മലയാളം ഡിപ്പാർട്ട്മെന്റും സംയുക്തമായി നടത്തിയ മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് ശില്പശാലയ്ക്കു് സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് പ്രവർ… --- ## [Fonts for Fedora 30, Varnam Editor and More: SMC Monthly Updates July 2019](https://community.smc.org.in/t/fonts-for-fedora-30-varnam-editor-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-july-2019/311)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/fonts-for-fedora-30-varnam-editor-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-july-2019/311 "2020-10-05T20:59:14Z")
Instead of the monolithic fonts-smc package, From Fedora 30 onwards, users can use the updated fonts in atomic packages like smc-rachana-fonts, smc-meera-fonts, smc-anjalioldlipi-fonts, smc-raghumalayalamsans-fonts, smc… --- ## [Lexicon Curation Application for mlmorph and Panchayat Wiki Workshops: SMC Monthly Updates May 2019](https://community.smc.org.in/t/lexicon-curation-application-for-mlmorph-and-panchayat-wiki-workshops-smc-monthly-updates-may-2019/310)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/lexicon-curation-application-for-mlmorph-and-panchayat-wiki-workshops-smc-monthly-updates-may-2019/310 "2020-10-04T00:40:50Z")
Panchayat Wiki is a documentation project to avail Kerala Gram Panchayat related Acts, rules and forms to public and Panchayat employees alike. This project was initiated by Jaisen Nedumpala. SMC and Wikipedia volunteers… --- ## [Grandham APIs, Swanalekha for Windows and More: SMC Monthly Updates Jan 2019](https://community.smc.org.in/t/grandham-apis-swanalekha-for-windows-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-jan-2019/309)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/grandham-apis-swanalekha-for-windows-and-more-smc-monthly-updates-jan-2019/309 "2020-10-01T00:29:59Z")
Swanalekha, the popular transliteration keyboard for Malayalam is now available in Windows and Mac. This is done by integrating Swanalekha input method into the Keyman typing tool. Developed by Ramesh Kunnappilly. Read m… --- ## [SMC Monthly Report: July 2018](https://community.smc.org.in/t/smc-monthly-report-july-2018/308)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/smc-monthly-report-july-2018/308 "2020-09-30T19:33:34Z")
We are back with the monthly report of July. The mlmorph project that Santhosh Thottingal was actively working was featured by Malayala Manorama. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://b… --- ## [Information, Entropy and Malayalam](https://community.smc.org.in/t/information-entropy-and-malayalam/307)
**Author:** [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/information-entropy-and-malayalam/307 "2020-09-30T18:47:39Z")
It was during my undergraduate course, I was awestruck by the idea that Information is quantifiable. Until then information for me was an abstract term. It still would have been, if not in the realm of information storag… [Previous page](https://community.smc.org.in/c/news/blog-posts/13.md) [Next page](https://community.smc.org.in/c/news/blog-posts/13.md?page=2)