Tamil Online Dictionaries

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Tamil Online Dictionaries

• Retrospective Digitization of Tamil dictionaries
• Thomas Malten
• Institute of Indology Tamil Studies
• Cologne University
• th.malten_at_uni-koeln.de

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Tamil (and Sanskrit) Online Dictionaries

• 1. Tamil Online Dictionaries in Chennai and
  Chicago
• -- Tamil Virtual University, Chennai
• -- Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, Chicago
  University
• 2. Online Dictionaries at Cologne University
• -- OTL, Cologne Online Tamil Lexicon (Tamil
  interface)
• 
  (Classical Tamil
  Literature Online Tamil interface)
• 3. Current Developments
• a) Tamil Lexicon Scans pdf online scan
  searchable scan
• b) Winslow Scans searchable scan online tool
• c) Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon

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Proposal for a new Online Tamil Lexicon

• 1. Based on Tamil Lexicon (text sources)
• 2. Academic and research dictionary
• 3. Retrospective
• 4. Collaborative

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Dictionary Sources

• More than 1000 Tamil Dictionaries
• Bibliographies and bibliographical Databases of
  Dictionaries
• Physical Identification of Tamil Dictionaries in
  Libraries
• Classification and Ordering of Tamil
  Dictionaries
• Tamil sample Sanskrit sample

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Digitizing

• 1.The Scanned Image, Sample 1 2 3
• 2. The Searchable Image 1 2
• 3. Keyboarding (Sample TL text -- image)
• Tagging
• XML Conversion
• Dictionary Database

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Postscript

• Tamil Dictionary on Mobile Phone
• Tamil Novel on Ebook Reader