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| Title | Development of Linguistic Resources and Tools for Providing Multilingual Solutions in Indian Languages ― A Report on National Initiative |
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| Authors | Swaran Lata and Somnath Chandra Vijay Kumar |
| Abstract | The multilingual diversity of India is one of the most unique in world. Currently there are 22 constitutionally recognized languages with 12 scripts.Apart from these, there are at least 35 different languages and 2000 dialectsin 4 major language families. It is thus evident that, development andproliferation of software solutions in the Indic multilingual environmentrequires continuous and sustained effort to edge out challenges in all coreareas namely storage and encoding, input mechanism, browser support and dataexchange. Linguistic Resources and Tools are the key building blocks to developmultilingual solutions. In this paper, we shall present an overview of themajor national initiative in India for the development and standardization ofLinguistic Resources and Tools for developing and deployment of multilingualICT solutions in India. |
| Language | LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues |
| Topics | LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues |
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Development of Linguistic Resources and Tools for Providing Multilingual Solutions in Indian Languages ― A Report on National Initiative |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{LATA10.620, author = {Swaran Lata and Somnath Chandra Vijay Kumar}, title = {Development of Linguistic Resources and Tools for Providing Multilingual Solutions in Indian Languages ― A Report on National Initiative}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |