Displaying Khmer - Development Document

By Javier Solar, 2004

The purpose of this document is to help developers who do not know the Khmer script to understand what is involved in displaying Khmer Unicode correctly.

Opensource: Khmer Logical Keyboard

Welcome to another Khmer opensource project on Khmer Logical Keyboard

The keyboard will provide three input states:  Normal, Shift, and Long Press. And it will adhere to three principles:

• Khmer characters will be divided into 3 groups based on frequency of use:
• 1) set of frequently used characters will be assigned to the normal state.
• 2) less frequently used characters will be assigned to the Shift state of the layout.
• 3) characters rarely used  in conversation, will be assigned to the Long Press state.
• It will not be a phonetic layout derived from QWERTY or AZERTY layouts.
• It will not include combined vowels and characters which are never used in conversation.

About

• Official Website: http://www.khmerkeyboard.com/
• Source Code: Google Code

Khmer Unicode Development - Letter to Mr. Maurice Bauhahn in 1996

According to Danh Hong's post, National Higher Education Task Force in 1996 had sent a letter to Mr. Maurice Bauhahn in order to register/integrate the Khmer language into computer system.

According to the Unicode.org website, Mr. Maurice Bauhahn has been called as one of the expert on Khmer Unicode:

Maurice Bauhahn is an expert on one of the most complex languages of Unicode 3.0 (Khmer), worked in Southeast Asia for 24 years, and holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science. [Unicode.org]

So thanks to ministers who have involved on Khmer Unicode development.

Read the full letter here.

Khmer Protocols Research

I haven't read it into detail to give the information but here quickly share:

The presentation:

2014 khmer protocols from c.titus.brown

About
This is a set of protocols for doing genomic data analysis – specifically, de novo mRNAseq assembly and de novo metagenome assembly – in the cloud.
The latest released version of these protocols can always be found at:

http://khmer-protocols.readthedocs.org/

You are reading v0.8.4; please use the following URL in citations and discussions:

https://khmer-protocols.readthedocs.org/en/v0.8.4/

By

Brown, C. Titus; Scott, Camille; Crusoe, Michael; Sheneman, Leigh;
Rosenthal, Josh; Adina Howe (2013): khmer-protocols documentation.
figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.878460 

Here is a blog for researchers

I met some people asking about where to find the articles about our Khmer research articles.

Just a short message here, it's one of my vision on that matter, when I started on my research on KhmerOCR topic, I really face this issue.

This blog will help to open on all researching articles related to the topic to help our Cambodia grows.

Let me know in comment if you are having some articles to share, passing the link or text if any.

Paper - Mobile Tech for Improved Family Planning Services (MOTIF)

Background

Providing women with contraceptive methods following abortion is important to reduce repeat abortion rates, yet evidence for effective post-abortion family planning interventions are limited. This protocol outlines the evaluation of a mobile phone-based intervention using voice messages to support post-abortion family planning in Cambodia.

Access by URL: http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/14/1/427     
© 2013 Smith et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 

Mobile Tech for Improved Family Planning Services (MOTIF), powered by our Verboice, an IVR tech http://t.co/wFohNwLIEd #cambodia #ictkh
— iLab Southeast Asia (@iLabSEA) January 14, 2014

KhmerText Opensource Project

Corpus is very important for the development of the language tools, I found we have an existing opensource hosted project about KhmerText which is mostly provide free/opensource data, the collection of Khmer Corpus.

About the project
Open data for a Khmer language corpus and lexicographic data that can be used for the development of free language tools for Khmer language, such as automatic translators, dictionaries, linguistic analysis tools, etc.

Website:
http://khmertext.sourceforge.net/

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/khmertext/files/