IIT Kanpur which is the birthplace of the widely known multilingual GIST technology and a score of other Indian language technology which include design of ISCII code, first OCR system, spell checker for Devanagari, has now initiated Anglabharti mission which aims at designing machine-aided translation systems that would facilitate translation of English to any other Indian language.
IIT Kanpur has developed Anglabharti technology for this purpose under the leadership of Prof. R.M.K. Sinha.
AnglaBharti uses a pseudo interlingua named as PLIL (Pseudo Lingua for Indian Languages) as an intermeduate language. The source English language is first translated into PLIL.
A text generator transforms the PLIL into the desired target Indian language.
As PLIL is valid for a group of Indian languages, a mere text generator is required to obtain translation in another Indian language.
It is estimated that translation of English to PLIL takes 70% of the effort and only 30% of additional effort is needed to design specific text generator.
Prof. Sinha also designed the fully operational English to Hindi machine aided translation system which has been named AnglaHindi using this technology.
IIT Kanpur in association with the Technology Development for Indian Language (TDIL) Programme of Govt. of India has now taken an initiative to make the AnglaBharti Technology available to all the thirteen Resource Centres in the coutry. These rsource centres have been established across the country for development of Indian languages technology solutions in their regional languages.
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Mission Objectives :
- Design Machine Aided Translation Systems for Translation from English to all Indian Languages based on AnglaBharti Technology.
- Break the barrier of English Language leading to improved communication with the common masses of the country.
- Bridge the Language-Divide within the country.
- Make the world-wide knowledge accessible to the common masses of the country by bringing in the benefits of modern Information Technology to them.
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Mission Patrons :
- Prof. S.G. Dhande, Director, IIT Kanpur.
- Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Chairmain, TDIL.
- Dr. Om Vikas, Senior Director, DIT, MCIT.
- Dr. P.K. Chaturvedi, Director, DIT, MCIT.
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Mission Director :
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Mission Calender of Events :
- First Expository Workshop on AnglaBharti Mission held at Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, New Delhi during September 2003. Participants from all thirteen resource centres were invited to attend and deliberate on issues.
- Second Expository Meet/Workshop on AnglaBharti Mission held at Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, New Delhi during March 15, 2004. Participants from all thirteen resource centres interested in participating in AnglaBharti Mission were invited to attend and discuss modalities.
- First Technical Workshop on Design of Machine Aided Translation Systems for Translation from English to all Indian Languages based on AnglaBharti Technology held at I.I.T. Kanpur during March 29-31, 2004.
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List of Organizations participating in AnglaBharti Mission :
- IIT Mumbai will be working on Marathi & Konkani and will be developing Angl
aMarathi & AnglaKonkani.
- IIT Gwahauti will be working on Asamiya & Manipuri and will be developing AnglaAsamiya & AnglaManipuri.
- CDAC Kolkata will be working on Bangla and will be developing AnglaBangala.
- CDAC(GIST group) Pune will be working on Urdu, Sindhi & Kashmiri and will develop AnglaUrdu, AnglaSindhi & AnglaKashmiri.
- CDAC Thiruananthpuram will be working on Malyalam and will be developing AnglaMalayalam.
- TIET Patiala will be working on Punjabi and will be developing AnglaPunjabi.
- JNU New Delhi will be working on Sanskrit and will be developing AnglaSanskrit.
- Utkal University Bhuvaneshwar will be working on Oriya and will be developing AnglaOriya.
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