New Online Demo Release - Word Segmentation for Khmer Unicode by NIPTICT

Khmer Word Segmentation is still in demand and hot topic among natural language processing topics for Khmer language.

There are some methods have been introduced so far but online tool to available for people to use it are still few (my collection here).

Why Word Segmentation is important?
In language processing, we need to identify clearly what are the words and sentences, our Khmer language we do not have space between word, the sentence goes without many spaces that's why it is hard for machine to understand it.

Segment the sentence into words nowadays we need big dictionary with method that could split each word with zero space as fast as we can.

Now NIPTICT, the institute just released its first demo for their method online.

This tool is very important to use in office or data entry for the website.

Another online tool that I usually use is with Kheng.info so now at least we have two available online tool to use.

For the explanation of the method that NIPTICT uses, I will find the update later.
Anyway, to join the research, you can submit yours at the conference of Khmer NLP from now until mid of October.

We are in need of the product, OCR Project for Khmer Language

As I have been stated in previous article about "The State of The Art", KhmerOCR is always in researching state and no yet the ready product.

More recently, some groups are challenging this and welling to introduce the product by forming a concreted team for that. Together there are some individual team also are doing the same thing here.

The joint team by some universities and individual researchers was formed a meeting recently on 31st July.
Now it's not yet to detail how will be but it's great to see more people were happy and willing to contribute into the project for our Cambodia.

And yet a surprise, I just saw another project is presenting and on asking for funding: OCR Khmer, it seems to be an online tool, let's watch their promotional video:

According to the video, the online OCR project is likely to be running on printed image of the font size of 36pt.

The project is asking for funding of $4,000 at the website of gofundme.com.
It's great to see the product some where around, let's help him, you can click here for more info.