[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd:Kannada -English Dictionary bot launched

[Shiju Alex]

Dear Wikimedians,


Here is one more solution from Santhosh and team for the Indian Languages.
After Malayalam and Hindi dictionary bot, now it is the turn of Kannada.
Vasudev Kamath has customized this solution for Kannada.

But unlike Malayalam and Hindi, Kannada dictionary bot completely relies on
*Kannada Wiktionary*, since Kannada does not have a free s/w licensed
dictionary database.

Read the blog post for more details:
http://vasudevkamath.blogspot.com/2010/11/jabber-dictionary-bot-for-kannada.html


Shiju Alex

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From: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Subject: [smc-discuss] Kannada -English Dictionary bot launched
To: Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing <
discuss at lists.smc.org.in>, silpa-discuss at nongnu.org


Friends,
Based on the code of our very successful dictionary bot, Vasudev
Kamath launched English-Kannada dictionary bot service. Unlike
Malayalam or Hindi, Kannada does not have a free s/w licensed
dictionary database. So the bot completely relies on the Kannada
wiktionary. See the blog post:
http://vasudevkamath.blogspot.com/2010/11/jabber-dictionary-bot-for-kannada.html

And English-Malayalam bot now uses Malayalam wiktionary along with our
dict database. It crossed 8000 users now. I had written a blog post
about this here:
http://thottingal.in/blog/2010/11/20/dictionary-jabber-buddy-bots/

Parsing wiktionary content is not an easy job, it still have some
bugs. Wiktionary has highly unstructured data or machine consumption.

Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi bots are running from our VPS server.

Thanks
Santhosh Thottingal.
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