Analysis of Sinhala Using Natural Language Processing Techniques Sajika Gallege Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison 1210 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706 sgallege@cs.wisc.edu Abstract The Unicode range for Sinhala is U+0D80–U+0DFF. Sinhala is the native language of the island nation of Sri The code page can be found at www.unicode.org Lanka. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo- /charts/PDF/U0D80.pdf. Given below is the Unicode European languages. Sinhala has a written ...
Bridging the Digital Divide in Sri Lanka: Some Challenges and Opportunities in using Sinhala in ICT S. T. Nandasara Yoshiki Mikami University of Colombo School of Computing Language Observatory No. 35, Reid Avenue Nagaoka University of Technology Colombo, Sri Lanka Nagaoka, Niigata, 940-2188, Japan stn@ucsc.cmb.ac.lk mikami@kjs.nagaokaut.ac.jp general, every day communication: both interpersonal Abstract and mass communication. Of them, Sinhala and Tamil are considered “national languages” while English is The "digital divide& ...
Machine Learning Approach for Real Time Translation of Sinhala Sign Language into Text S.D. Hettiarachchi R.G.N.Meegama Apple Research and Development Centre, Department of Apple Research and Development Centre, Department of Computer Science Computer Science Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura Nugegoda, Sri Lanka Nugegoda, Sri Lanka shanuka.d.hettiarachchi@gmail.com rgn@sci.sjp.ac.lk Abstract — An effective communication bridge has to be signs into text ...
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 192 569 FL 011 690 AUTHOR MacDougall, Bonnie Graham: de Abrew, Kamini TITLE Sinhala: Basic Course. Module 1: Beginning Signs and Letters. IN Foreign Service (Dept. of State), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE Foreign Service Inst. 79 NOTE 119p.: For related documents, see FL 011 699-700. AVAILABLE FROM Photographs will not reproduce well. Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (No. 044-000-01764-4, $4.25) LANGUAGE English: Singhalese ErfS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage ...
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A Segmentation-free Approach to Recognise Printed Sinhala Script H. L. Premaratne University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka Lalith.Premaratne@ide.hh.se hlp@mail.cmb.ac.lk J.Bigun School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering Halmstad University, S-301 18 Halmstad, Sweden Josef.Bigun@ide.hh.se Abstract symbols to produce the required vocal sound. Majority of character recognition algorithms The total number of different modifications from such as the use of ANNs needs segmentation of the entire alphabet including ...
Sinhala Alphabet Transliteration Vowels a w wd æ we wE i b B u W W! short long short long short long short long i/uR /RD et ta aift oT ´ auT! short long short long short long Consonants unvoiced unvoiced voiced voiced voiced Prenasalized unasparated aspirated unasparated aspirated nasal Sanyaka ka l kha L ga . gha > a X nga `. Gutturals ca p cha P ja c jha CO na [/{ Palatals a g ha G a ...