LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:1 January 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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MACHINE TRANSLATION – YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Tamil Book

Prof. Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan

Abstract

“Machine Translation - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” is a monograph written in Tamil to introduce the deferent dimensions of machine translation to the Tamil readers. It has nine chapters including introduction and conclusion.

Chapter 1: Introduction

The introduction describes the aim and scope of machine translation. It deals about the three different types of machine translation as well as the general characteristics of machine translation.

Chapter 2: Mile Stones in Machine Translation

This chapter discusses about the history of machine translation explained by Hutchins, Somers and others. Hutchins and Somers describes about the history of machine translation by diving the stages of MT development into four or five stages. The first stage covers the period from 1933 to 1956. The second stage covers the period from 1956 to 1966. Next comes the report of ALPAC which criticized the MT attempts and the futility of the efforts. The fourth stage covers the period from 1967 to 1976. This is followed by a description on translation tools and translators’ workstation. “Research since 1989” is described afterwards. Next mile stone is “operational and commercial system since 1990”. “MT on Internet” becomes the topic of next stage.

Chapter 3: Some Important Machine Translation Systems

This chapter discusses about the different types of MT systems built in world arena. The following MT systems have been discussed briefly: GAT:Georgetown automatic translation, CETA automatic translation center research, TAUM research in University of Montreal, ALP automatic language processing, SYSTRAN, LOGOS, SUSY, METEO, Weinder Communication Corporation, SPANAM, CULT: Chinese University Translator, ALPS automated language processing systems., MT development in Japan, Ariane (GETA), Eurotra, METAL, Rosetta and DLT.

Chapter 4: MT Research in India

This chapter discusses about the major attempts to build Machine transplantation systems in India. The MT systems such as Anusaraka, Anglabharati, Anubharati, Anglabharati II, Mantra MT system, Anuvadak MT system, MT system based on ULN and English-Kannada MT system have been described. This is followed by a description of Tamil oriented MT systems.

Chapter 5: Corpus Creation

This chapter talks about the corpora creation. The different corpora created for English language is discussed initially. This is followed by a description on Indian language corpora creation.

Chapter 6: POS Tagging on Text

This chapter talks about the POS tagging of texts. The importance of POS tagging, creation of TAG sets, different types of TAG sets available at the international arena as well as in Indian language arena have been discussed.

Chapter 7: Systematic Parsing

This chapter discusses about syntactic parsing. The different types of syntactic parsing and the attempts to parse Indian languages including Tamil have been dealt in this chapter.

Chapter 8: Indian Langue to Indian Language MT System

The consortia project Indian language to Indian language MT system is one of the important MT project financed by Govt.of India. The creation of this system is elaborated in this chapter.

Chapter 9: Conclusion

This is only the beginning part of the book. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE BOOK IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Prof. Rajendran Sankaravelayuthan
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University
Coimbatore 641 112
rajushush@gmail.com
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