Tamil language research

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Tami language researach

Tamil is one of the very few languages of the world with a classical past and a robust literary tradition that has continued to this day.
Despite many foreign occupations of the Tamil country and other outside influences, this noble language has always shined, producing vibrant literature for over 2 thousand years

Harvard Tamil Chair  

Harvard Tamil Chair

Tamil Research Labs

Machine Learning and Tamil Language Research


Tamil research lab

  • Chol is an online Tamil-English-Tamil dictionary with definitions in English and Tamil and example sentences. 
  • Chol features words from ancient literature to modern technology. 
  • New words are being added every month.

  • Piripori is a morphological analyzer and compound word splitter for Tamil. 
  • Piripori can handle 35 crore morphological variations in Tamil nouns, verbs, and numerous compound nouns.

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  • Emoni is a rhyme finder tool designed based on Tamil’s rhyme schemes edhugai(second letter) moanai(first letter) and iyaibu(end letter). 
  • A handy tool for writers.


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    • Paeri is a name generator that can generate around 9 crore boy/girl names based on Tamil phonetics. 
    • You can also browse common and trendy Tamil names with their meaning.

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      • Paadal lyric portal offers an interface to browse and research Tamil song lyrics. 
      • This portal features an exclusive search engine and lyric visualization designed to browse lyrics.  
      • The site also provides scoring for pleasantness, freshness, and rhyme in lyrics.


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      • Aadugalam is a portal for word games. 
      • There is no better way to learn a language than to play with it. 
      • Games like porul will challenge your vocabulary skills. 
      • Pudhayal is a unique maze game. 
      • soRkoa is a word game that will test your pattern matching by challenging you to find words with different consonant-vowel combinations.

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      • eN is a simple number to text converter. 
      • The tool can be used to convert 18 digit numbers to equivalent Tamil and English words. 
      • This tool will be a handy plugin for text to speech engines to convert numbers to speech.

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      • Olingoa is a tool for transliteration. 
      • You can convert the sounds from one Indian language script to another Indian language. 
      • Available for Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, English and a few other Indian languages.

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        Tamil Literature – Science Topic


        • As a Dravidian language, Tamil descends from Proto-Dravidian. Linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around the third millennium BC, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin in peninsular India. 
        • The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were the culture associated with the Neolithic complexes of South India. The next phase in the reconstructed proto-history of Tamil is Proto-South Dravidian. 
        • The linguistic evidence suggests that Proto-South Dravidian was spoken around the middle of the second millennium BC and that proto-Tamil emerged around the 3rd century BC. 
        • The earliest epigraphic attestations of Tamil are generally taken to have been written shortly thereafter. Among Indian languages, Tamil has the most ancient non-Sanskritised Indian literature.

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        Center for Tamil Natural Language Processing Research

        Aim of CTNLPR

        • Center for Tamil natural language processing research aims to research and develop natural language processing tools required for Tamil and to build an active scholarly network of people contributing to the advancement of the language.

        Vision of CTNLPR

        • Lay the groundwork in the field of natural language processing to adopt technological advancements for the longevity and completeness of Tamil language and to prepare it for the next generation.

        Objectives of CTNLPR

        • Perform fundamental research in the language and technology that is needed to develop natural language processing tools for Tamil. 
        • Gather information from present and previous work, analyze and review them. Organise these work into the themes of the center to support the current research, and launch future projects. 
        • Establish scientifically validated methodologies and frameworks that help to standardize technology related to the Tamil language. These standards will be used as ground rules and serve as the basis for future research and application development. 
        • Delivering language essentials to researchers and communities, e.g. dictionary databases, data corpus, language packs for multi-language applications, etc. 
        • To build a global opensource platform containing language and processing resources, products/applications which would ultimately serve for text/speech processing, analytics, and knowledge engineering in Tamil. 
        • Promote synergy with independent research groups, institutions, and universities that engage in Tamil natural language processing research. Offer a common platform for collaboration and information exchange while providing required resources, help and consultancy for emerging research scholars. 

        Research Themes of CTNLPR

        • Language Parsing, Resolution & Modelling 
        • Machine Translation & Transliteration 
        • Human-Machine Interface 
        • Evolutionary Study of Language 
        • Knowledge Engineering


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        Tamil University
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        Research activities on Tamil Language and Culture

        • Tamil University conducting hundreds of research projects on Tamil language and culture funded by various international, national and state organizations such as UGU, CSIR, ICHR, ASI, INSA, ICSSR, NISTADS, CICT, Ford Foundation and CIIL, in addition to the support from the Government of Tamil Nadu, have been completed.

        • Hundreds of international, national and state level conferences, seminars, workshops and training programmes have been organised to disseminate and generate knowledge and new ideas.

        • Seventy endowments have been established for the generation of new ideas and dissemination of knowledge through lectures, student fellowships and awards.

        • More than 5000 texts of palm leaf manuscripts have been collected and are preserved in the University.

        • Several aspects of Tamil language, literature, culture, art and architecture, fine arts have been researched by the faculty of the university

        • Important Tamil Brahmi inscriptions and archaeological sites have been discovered by the faculty and students of the university

        • Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India has identified the Department of Industries and Earth Sciences as nodal centre for research activites on placer mineral deposits.

        • Many important archaeological sites such as Vallam, Periyapattinam, Kodumanal, Tandikkudy and Nagapattinam have been excavated by the University

           

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