The major activities of TDIL involves Research and Development of Language Technology,  which includes machine translation, multi-lingual parallel corpora, cross lingual information access, optical character recognition and text to speech conversion,  proliferation of language technology and  development of standards related to Language Technology etc.  Various projects and research have been undergoing under TDIL with the effort of number of Scientific organizations and Educational Institutions.  The projects are in consortium mode and IIITM-K is one of the  consortium members of two prestigious projects Indian Language Corpora Initiative (JNU ILCI) and Indian Language Machine Translation System (IIIT-H ILMT).

VRCLC aims to promote Malayalam Computing and Language Computing by conducting  research and developments in this area mainly in Machine Translation Systems, Corpora developments, tools and Interfaces, Standards and tackling various issues pertaining to Malayalam language when it's translated.   The centre will also promote Malayalam Computing initiatives  in the  state to setting up standards, creating awareness, providing training and consultancy and development of  Localization tools. In order to fulfill the mission  to make Kerala the First E-literate state in India, a collaborate and joint efforts in the development of tools, software and interfaces are  highly required.   The success of of an e-Governance project depends  only when it reaches to the common people and only when it can be accessed in local languages.     So there is a big need for Malayalam Computing solutions that can benefit to a large comminity of Malayalam Speaking.