Mtech Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Government Engineering College Sreekrishnapuram organized an one day workshop on " Multilingual Computing " ( sponsored by TEQIP Phase 2) in association with Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC ) on October 7 2013. The purpose of the workshop was to get familiarized with various challenges and issues related to language engineering and computing. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. P C Reghu Raj , Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The keynote speech was delivered by Mr. Santhosh Thottingal, Senior Software Engineer at Language Engineering team Wikimedia Foundation and project admin of SMC. Mr. Santhosh presented the need for greater emphasis on software localization and need of multilingual computing systems. He also illustrated various tools and projects related to Malayalam Computing. Later Mr Robert introduced the basics of Natural language programming and Mr Manu took a session on Semantic Web. The workshop was attended by more than 70 participants.
