[smc-discuss] English Malayalam Dictionary - Dict server and Jabber buddy bot

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
<santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> Since we got a new server, Rajeesh just started a dict daemon there.
> That means you can now use the English Malayalam dictionary with the
> gnome or kde dictionary tools. In the configuration one need to give
> the server as
> silpa.smc.org.in and port as 2628. Configuration is  documented in
> detail with screenshots here: http://wiki.smc.org.in/Dictionary
>
> In addition to English Malayalam dictionary, we have English Hindi and
> Hindi English Dictionaries.
>
> Other languages are not available since there is no dictionaries
> available in Freedom compatible license.
>
> There is an easy way to use the dictionary now. We have a jabber buddy
> bot running with the above mentioned dictionary.
> Add eng.mal.dict at gmail.com to your gtalk or jabber contacts.
> To get the meaning of a word, start chatting with this contact, type
> the word. The bot will reply to you with the meaning.
>
> If you have any doubts in using this, please ask. The jabber bot is
> experimental and there can be some changes in the usage pattern later.
>
> Dict based English-Malayalam dictionary was prepared by Myself and
> Rajeesh Nambiar. The dictionary used is the Kerala gov, gpled eng-mal
> dictionary. It is a very small dictionary. Our attempts to get the
> dictionaries with more words from CDAC or Kerala government was not
> successful so far. This dictionary is not packaged so far(we need to
> do that)
>
> The Jabber Buddy bot was prepared by myself, Ragsagar,  Ershad and
> Sarath Lakshman.

To add to this, twitter bot by Ershad and Hrishi are now up and
running. Try "@smcbot dict <word>".

>
>
>
> Thanks
> Santhosh Thottingal
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Cheers,
Rajeesh
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