Welcome to ZeM!

This blog actually grew out of my efforts at explaining how to be able to read my Telugu blog, di. di. ka. I made the 'mistake' of googling before posting there, and presto, suddenly hit paydirt; found stuff that I've been searching for over two years now. Which is when I realised a single post wouldn't be enough for this; Indic language processing, in fact, would be an ongoing technical project that's best discussed in English to reach a wider audience.

Just to give a slightly brief personal overview, and as I've mentioned in an email I just wrote, am obsessive enough about the topic to be even fanatical at times. I was, indeed, about to spend all of Friday night working on this in my cubicle, when a co-worker came over and basically dragged me out to dinner; the time lag between my post at Flocci and this one can basically be explained by some garlic naan, palak paneer and chicken tikka.

Things that, of course, will not stop ZeM anymore; while I don't want to promise things that I may or may not deliver, let's just say I'm on the verge of doing something very very exciting, and frankly, I still haven't gotten over the initial exhuberance.