Recently, a system which facilitates the translation of languages over web was launched by esteemed former President APJ Abdul Kalam.
The system Machine translation (MT) is developed by 17 institutions including the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) was released at the 20th World Web wide conference.
According to the director of IIIT Hyderabad, the MT system is based on the computational paninian grammar (CPG), which works extremely well for free word order languages and Indian languages in particular.
The tools are available in three modules- Sampark (Indian to Indian), AnglaMT (English to Bengali, Malayalam, Punjabi and Urdu) and Anvadaksh (English to Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Oriya, Urdu and Tamil).
Among all 122 Indian languages, 22 languages are official. More than billion people worldwide speak Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil and Urdu. With the availability of e-content and advent of language technology, it was nearly impossible to overcome language barrier.
The 3 consortia comprising 17 academic and research institutions were involved in building amazing 26 distinct pair of languages.
Presently, 12 pairs are available and in future plan is to release more in every three-four months.
The whole exercise cost was about Rs 13 crore and approximately 300 students were directly involved in the development of these useful tools. More than 200 additional students worked as a thesis and their algorithms were embedded into the systems.
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