K.V. Kurmanath, Hyderabad
The Hindu Business Line
The long wait of language lovers will soon be over with Sampark, a translation machine to be offered free on the Web, getting ready for launch in June 2009.
The beta version would allow users to get their documents translated into Hindi from seven Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Punjabi and Marathi. “We are working on 18 systems (translations among these languages). It will be upgraded as we get the feedback,” Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director of IIIT, told Business Line.
The Indian language machine translation (Sampark), which is being developed by nine institutes including IITs and universities, is anchored by IIIT (International Institute of Information Technology) here. The programme is being 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. “We are launching a beta version 0.50 soon. But keeping in mind the complex grammar of Indian languages, it will take some time to launch a better version,” students working on the programme said
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