IIITians Working on Open Source Language Translation Tools

By Rajiv Dingra • March 25, 2009

Come June 2009 and Sampark an open source web based translation tool would be launched. The beta version of this tool allows users to get their documents translated to Hindi from seven Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Punjabi and Marathi.

The development of this tool is been done across 9 tech institutes including the IIT’s and its led by IIIT (International Institute of Information Technology). The programme is funded by the Union Ministry of Information Technology.

The institute is also working on an open source translation programme called Anusaaraka, which allows translation of English texts into Hindi.

The importance of translation tools for online content

Its been often repeated that internet in India needs to grow beyond the metro’s to the towns and villages but for that to happen Internet as a medium needs to be useful and fit for consumption for such areas. Such kind of translation tools make that possible especially as their focus is hindi which is the single largest spoken and understood language in the country.

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Tags: IIIT, IIT, open source tools, translation, web tools

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