Template:Technical Tools for Tamil (3T) Laboratory/About

Vision

We see Tamil as one of the mightiest, oldest and still thriving languages in the world. We believe adopting technological advancements is crucial for the longevity and completeness of the Tamil. We aim to lay the groundwork for the technological tools that are essential to make the language available with the up-to-date technology and further preparing the Tamil language for the next generation.

What We Do

3T Laboratory researches and develops technological tools for Tamil Language.

Who We Are

3T Laboratory is a team of experts and volunteers with a common view of building contemporary tools for Tamil language and exploiting cutting edge technologies to explore the heritage and uniqueness of the Tamil language. Our team is made up of technologists and linguists. Our team is a composition of members whose specialties include science, engineering, linguistics, library science, and archaeology. Researchers provide an institutional expertise to ensure that 3T laboratory stays at the technological and linguistic forefront of the many depth expertise areas represented in technologies for Tamil.

We Invite

We invest time and resources in the areas that we believe will most effectively promote the efficiency of the combined research in technology and language. We attract individual researchers and groups form language studies and technology to collaboratively work in this laboratory. By bringing the isolated studies and efforts together into this common platform we try to institutionalise and standardise of technology for the language. 3T laboratory creates the scope for knowledge sharing, peer reviewing, constructive criticism, and collaboration. Besides the benefits to the language this laboratory provides a pitch for individual researchers to demonstrate their knowledge and skills, leading towards their personal career development.

Open Source

We are committed to developing open source tools and the furtherance of the open source personal research community. The language of Tamil is open to everyone in the world and therefore our strong belief is that the knowledge related to the language should not be restricted within a closed community. Our research and developed tools will be published on publically available media, making it free for anyone to use, change, and improve. We see this open source approach enabling the innovation and helping to ensure the adoption of technology into the language is a transparent process with positive societal impact. Nevertheless we have various contributors donating their intellectual properties and proprietary contributions from third parties. These contributions are made by broad minded individuals and institutions with the devotion on the language of Tamil. We respect the agreements with these contributors and endeavour to protect and use their properties as stated in the conditions.

Objectives

• Perform fundamental research in the language and technology that is needed develop tools dedicated for the language of Tamil.
• Gather information from present and previous works, analyse and review them. Organise these works into the themes of the 3T Laboratory in order to support the current research, and launch future projects.
• Promote synergy with independent research groups, institutions and universities that engage the research in Tamil linguistic and technology. Offer a common platform for collaboration and information exchange. Provide required resources, help and consultancy for emerging research scholars.
• Establish scientifically validated methodologies and frameworks that help standardising technology related to Tamil language. These standards will be used as ground rules and serve as the basis for future research and application development.
• Delivering urgent language essentials to researchers and communities, e.g. dictionary databases, data corpus, language packs for multi-language applications, etc.