Quillpad Transliteration Server

Quillpad is an indic language input technology that revolutionized the Indian language typing scene. It is one of the most popular Indic input technologies with more than a billion words typed on the website alone.

Quillpad pioneered the successful use of machine learning for building a predictive language input technology. Quillpad has been rated as the best by many organisations that have embraced Quillpad.

Version

1.0.1

Preparation

There are several archive files in the repository which have to be extracted, these include trained transliteration models and additional text files necessary for the Quillpad Server

• CherryPy-3.2.2.tar.gz
• EnglishPronouncingTrees.tar.bz2
• IndianPronouncingTrees.tar.bz2
• additional_text_files.zip
• bengali.tar.bz2
• gujarati.tar.bz2
• hindi.tar.bz2
• kannada.tar.bz2
• malayalam.tar.bz2
• marathi.tar.bz2
• nepali.tar.bz2
• punjabi.tar.bz2
• tamil.tar.bz2
• telugu.tar.bz2
• unique_word_files.zip

Kindly extract all of these archives into the repository folder itself.

Installation

Quillpad Server requires Python 2.7 to run.

First, we need to compile the Quillpad Model loader that will be used to load the trained transliteration models

$ cd Python\ Cart/python
$ python setup.py build_ext --inplace
$ cp QuillCCart.so ../../
$ cd ../../

Now, the Quillpad Server is ready to run

$ python startquill_cherry.py

Additional Information

• Quillpad runs on port number 8090 (Additional configuration parameters are in quill_cherry8088.conf)

• processWordJSON and processWord are the API endpoints over which the transliteration server can be accessed.

Example:

  * localhost:8090/processWordJSON?inString=hello&lang=hindi
  * localhost:8090/processWordJSON?inString=hello&lang=kannada

Development

Additional Quillpad Documentation coming soon. Thanks for your patience.

Python Package Requirements

CherryPy-3.2.2 -> included within the repo Pyrex -> http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Need to download the source code from above link and use command python setup.py install MySQL and MySQL-python -> If error during Quillpad server startup, then check the page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43634584/cant-install-mysql-python-with-pip-on-macos-10-12-4/54429707#54429707 If above link also does not work then you may have to download/ install via zip files pip install MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip --> https://pypi.org/project/MySQL-python/#files pip install http://cdn.mysql.com/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-connector-python-2.0.4.zip

Need to make logs directory in Quillpad-Server: mkdir logs

Reference

An invited talk paper for the Quillpad project: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-4810

Similar Google service integration: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28707899/how-to-use-google-input-tools-in-website