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Indic Development kit

A development kit that allows application developers to develop Indian language enabled applications.

Executive Summary

Status	Source Tree	Download	Developers
Not owned	Not available	Not released

Rationale

This is a request that has come up in many situations: developers targetting indian language applications are today forced to implement the basics of Indian language support from scratch. This leads to much duplicated work and is also a source of bugs and gratuituous incompatibilities.

A development environment containing the necessary tools and libraries would be a boon for such developers. The essential components of such a development environment would be:

Libraries that help applications process Indian language text, handle Indic input and output among other tasks.
Tools to assist translation of text in other languages to Indian languages.
Documentation about language specific quirks and processing issues.
Sample applications that use this development kit to process Indian language text.

Background Information

The Indian language support that exists today in the open-source world is planned to be documented in the Technology Map.

Existing software projects

To the best of our knowledge there is no effort underway that aims at providing a comprehensive development tool kit.

Skill Set Required

This project would require release engineering skills for the most part. Documentation and technical writing skills would also be needed.

Time Estimate

Not estimated.

Status

Currently not owned. Please join up.

Comments

This project would be best attempted after a comprehensive survey of available Indian language processing tools has been done and the findings incorporated into the Technology Map.

In some sense, this project can be viewed as "packaging" of some of the deliverables of the Indic-Computing project (e.g., the Handbook, support libraries like Translib) along with other open-source libraries and tools.

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