SLM

Swecha, a Hyderabad-based nonprofit organisation, along with call centre software provider Ozonetel, has developed a small language model (SLM) for Telugu. Titled ‘Chandamama Kathalu’ (Chandamama stories), the SLM will be officially launched in the first week of January by Telangana principal IT secretary Jayesh Ranjan. This SLM will have 7 to 13 billion parameters. The genesis of the SLM lies in a paper authored by Microsoft research scientists, titled ‘TinyStories: How small can language models be and still speak…

Spelling errors are a common problem for many people. They can be caused by a variety of factors, such as typos, mishearing words, or simply not knowing how to spell a word correctly. While spelling errors are usually minor, they can sometimes be embarrassing or even lead to misunderstandings. The Jaro-Winkler algorithm is one of the many ways that help to accomplish such with a satisfactory result of 0.87 in Mean Average Precision (MAP), and it is a string metric that measures the similarity between two strings. It is a…