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....
Shiju Alex
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottingal@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@lists.smc.org.in>, silpa-discuss@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....
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.
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