The software, which took Zeeshan Bhatti two years to complete, can also compute and compose tasks in Sindhi. “Initially the programme can only be used with the Sindhi word processor software but in less than two months it will be laced with Microsoft Word and browser plug-ins,” he said. “I collected word data from multiple dictionaries, including A T Shahani, N A Baloch, Gur Bakshani, Sindhica and Sindhology dictionaries.”
He explained that he used five to six dictionaries because of a copyright issue. He added that the Shahani and Bakshani dictionaries did not have copyrights but the rest did.
Bhatti who presented his MPhil research paper at the Sindh University on Thursday, claims that the spell checker applications can flag incorrectly spelt words in a document and suggest corrections. “The programme has been designed to scan and extract words and compare them against a list of correct words,” he said.
The lecturer hopes that with the identification and classification of errors in Sindhi, the programme can help make the language speaker-friendly. He added that the composition of the language is mostly done on different versions of Microsoft Word in which a modified Arabic script is used to type in Sindhi.
The software will be made available online after a licence is issued to him.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 26th, 2011.
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Great work done on sindhi language. We feel proud to be a part of IICT.. wish you all the best sir for your future research...........
@ Irfan Come out of that Sindhi/ Punjabi thing. Many Bhattis are native Sindhi speakers with roots no roots in Punjab. You will find Bhattis in Bengal too who are Bengali speaking. Please do some more reading of anthropoplogy.
Congratulations on this excellent piece of work!! It's heartening to know that someone from IICT / UoS has contributed to an area of application of ICT where much attention was needed. Keep up the good work in the future as well. All the best!!
Great job, now see d world, a Punjabi have done such a gr8 service to Sindhi language, we all r one nation
Great Job Mr Zeeshan Bhatti....
Sir Congratulate, and this is nice platform Sindhi Software. and the People of Sindh have been on the forefront of the struggle for democracy and secularism in Pakistan. Software
Nice effort!
Nice Work Sir Sooper great work on Sindhi language
Well done Bhatti Sahab.
a very good step taken.a spell check software for punjabi should also be developed.
well done Mr. Bhatti!
Computer programs are spelled "program" and not "programme".