செப்ரெம்பர் 2019 – தமிழில் நிரல் எழுது

Tamil projects for 2019-2020

Over the course of this year, since translating Ruby Kin, and preparing a summary of 3 years work on spell-checker for Tamil Internet Conference – 2019, I’ve been thinking of next level of interesting projects.

The following have come to mind, expressed in Twitter @ezhillang in various forms. Here they are in simply chronological order,

Translating “Data Structures and Algorithms” book in Tamil
- Previously my work with open-tamil collaborators involved generating useful practical Tamil words for commonly used data structures in a survey. ‘கணினி தரவமைப்புகளும் செயல்முறைகளும்‘
- Useful candidate books for translation are:
  - ‘Algorithms,’ by Prof. Jeff Erickson at UIUC
  - Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python, Creative Commons licensed by its authors Brad Miller and David Ranum; same book (from above) adapted at Bradfield CS https://bradfieldcs.com/algos/
Translating/Writing a “Debugging Techniques” book in Tamil: ‘கணினி செயல்முறை நிரகளில் வழுநீக்கம்‘ – பயிற்சி, நூல்
- Debugging techniques are important learning milestone for any professional software/hardware developer which are usually learnt on the job and essentially skipped in academia (perhaps for practical purposes).
(Research/Proof-of-concept) Viterbi algorithm based spelling correction algorithm for Tamil
(Research/Proof-of-concept) Concordance based context ambiguity resolution for Tamil spelling correction.