[smc-discuss] Free and open Malayalam dictionary dataset

aboobacker sidheeque mk aboobackervyd at gmail.com
Tue May 21 23:09:44 PDT 2013


Thanks you sir . I was searching for such data base for my MT project :)

On 5/22/13, Balasankar Chelamattath <c.balasankar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Kailash.. That is a great news,
>
> Regards,
> Balasankar C
>
>
>
> 2013/5/22 Kailash Nadh <kailash.nadh at gmail.com>
>
>>  Hello all,
>> I've just been able publish the semanticised version of Datuk's original
>> ASCII Malayalam-Malayalam dictionary digitisation work.
>> => http://olam.in/open/datuk
>>
>> "The Datuk Corpus" is a human readable, parse-ready, Unicode dictionary
>> dataset with over 83,000 Malayalam words and over 106,000 definitions.
>> It's
>> been in development for over two years. The dataset is an evolution of
>> Datuk's original work, and has undergone extensive refinement,
>> corrections,
>> and structuring, amounting to tens of thousands of changes. The Github
>> repository for the project contains the full text corpus, an SQL dump,
>> and
>> a couple Python scripts for parsing and conversion.
>>
>> This is the same dataset that powers Olam's Malayalam-Malayalam
>> dictionary
>> that went live two days ago. Also, Datuk's original work constitutes a
>> substantial portion of the Malayalam Wiktionary.
>>
>>
>> Sample entries from the dataset:
>>
>> ച	ചക്രാംഗി	സം. -അംഗീ	_   36953
>> 	നാ.	അരയന്നപ്പിട
>> 	നാ.	ചക്രവാകപ്പിട
>> 	നാ.	മഞ്ചട്ടി
>> 	നാ.	കക്കടകശൃംഗി
>>
>> പ	പരോക്ഷം	_	_	57697
>> 	നാ.	മറവ്
>> 	നാ.	പരോക്ഷജ്ഞാനം
>> 	നാ.	പ്രത്യക്ഷമല്ലാത്തത്
>>
>>
>> The dataset is licensed under the
>> ODbL<http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/>,
>> inspired by the Open Street Map project.
>>
>> Hope this is all useful.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Kailash
>>
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