Tamil Computing (Paperback or Softback)

This book aims to outline current Tamil Computing technologies available around us in the present context to all participants like students, academicians, researchers and others who are interested in this field. Most of the books available in the market deal with Natural Language Processing, specifically English Language Processing. Therefore, the author hopes this book will be of utmost use to the undergraduate, postgraduate and researchers.

This book provides an overall picture of Tamil Computing, covering different aspects. Specifically, starting with the basics of Tamil, Tamil Computing, Coding standards, fonts, keyboards, issues related to it, morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Tamil, Tools and resources and applications of Tamil Computing in detail.

The purpose of this book is also to give an insight into Tamil Handwritten character recognition and Speech processing in detail. Automatic Speech Recognition in one of the critical issues in any language. Recognizing handwritten characters using a machine is necessary in today's modern world. A computer system should be intelligent enough to receive and interpret the handwritten input. These two aspects are explained in detail.

This book elaborates on the existing corporate packages like MS-Office and its usage in Tamil, Database Processing and open Tamil. The book also explains input-outputting methods in detail with simple python programs. The use of the MS Windows Operating System is widespread worldwide in different languages. This book describes the practices of customization of MS Windows software for Tamil. Usage of the MS Windows Operating System is famous worldwide in other languages. This book has also added details concerning Indic Libraries and Large Language Models.