Govt plans web-based translation facility to overcome
linguistic limitations
NEW DELHI: Internet users will soon be able to utilise
the virtual world to overcome their linguistic
limitations with the Department of Information
Technology
planning a Web-based translation facility next year.
The facility, to be launched in October 2008, would
not only help people to translate from English to
regional languages, but also edit scanned or
handwritten
documents on tablet personal computers.
The Department of Information Technology is working on
the web-based machine translation facility for English
to Indian and in between local languages,
which it hopes to complete by October 2008, DIT Joint
Secretary Pankaj Agrawala
said.
"The five mission mode projects to enable machine
translation facility will be complete in 18 months
from now. In six months we will launch some version
of it," Agrawala said.
The domains of the five mission mode projects are
tourism and health, he said, adding the project on
completion can be customised for individuals and can
be used through internet by common man.
These mission mode projects include development of
machine translation from English to six Indian
languages and bi-directional translation of nine
Indian
languages.
It also includes 'cross lingual information access',
in which query results would be available in Hindi,
English and one of the six Indian languages.
With the help of the machine further modules would be
developed that would, with artificial intelligence
technology, enable a person speaking one language
to converse with a person with the knowledge of
another language.
As many as 23 academic, R&D institutions and private
corporates are working in a consortium, which includes
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
(C-DAC), an autonomous scientific society, Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of
Science.
The facility would also contain optical character
recognition for ten Indian scripts enabling editing of
scanned document and online handwriting recognition
system for six Indian scripts.
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