SMC/SoC/2008

SMC in Google Summer of Code 2007

Santhosh Thottingal will be lead admin this year, and will deal with the administrative stuff with Google for SMC to be a mentoring organisation

Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2008

Tokenizer/Lemmatiser for malayalam for GATE

Write a Lemmatiser for Malayalam. See whether we can do a plugin for GATE for malayalam, that would help NLP reasearchers a lot and that would be a great idea. Google search GATE,download and install GATE , and in the plugins directory a hindi tokenizer and lemmatiser is available.

Functional Optical character Recognition system

Add malayalam Support for tesseract OCR.

• Study tesseract OCR system
• Recogntion of all characters
• Layout recogization using ocropus (optional ?)

http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/

Write a Gnome Speech Driver for Dhvani and Integrate it with Orca

1. Orca for visually impaired users uses gnome speech for speech engines. Currently Festival, Espeak, freetts etc have drivers for gnome speech. We need to write a driver for dhvani.
2. Develop plugins for KTTS/Gedit/Firefox

Rewrite the Dhvani sound system with SDL

1. Rewrite the ALSA sound system of Dhvani with SDL to make it a cross platform application
2. Packaging for different platforms
3. Bug fixes for langauge modules and Code clean up
4. Adding pitch/volume/pause support for the generated speech

Localization of Free Content Management Systems to Malayalam-Drupal &Joomla

100% localization of Drupal and Joomla CMS systems to Malayalam

Speech recognition system for Malayalam

1. Develop a speech recognition system for Malayalam using the concepts of memory prediction framework

How to Apply

1. see http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html
2. Student Application Template

Selection procedure

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html

Guidelines for Mentors

Summer of Code Mentoring HOWTO