Efforts in Language & Speech Technology Natural Language Processing Lab

• Efforts in Language & Speech Technology

• Natural Language Processing Lab

• Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

• (Ministry of Communications & Information Technology)

• ‘Anusandhan Bhawan’,

• C 56/1 Sector 62, Noida – 201 307, India

• [e-mail]

Translation Support System (English to Hindi)

Test suite for Translation Support Systems

• Knowledge Management

• Parallel Corpus & Tools

Gyan Nidhi : Parallel Corpus

• ‘GyanNidhi’ which stands for ‘Knowledge Resource’ is parallel in 12 Indian languages , a project sponsored by TDIL, DIT, MC &IT, Govt of India

Gyan Nidhi: Multi-Lingual Aligned Parallel Corpus

• What it is? The multilingual parallel text corpus contains the same text translated in more than one language.

• What Gyan Nidhi contains? GyanNidhi corpus consists of text in English and 11 Indian languages (Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Assamese). It aims to digitize 1 million pages altogether containing at least 50,000 pages in each Indian language and English.

Tools: Prabandhika: Corpus Manager

• Categorisation of corpus data in various user-defined domains

• Addition/Deletion/Modification of any Indian Language data files in HTML / RTF / TXT / XML format.

• Selection of languages for viewing parallel corpus with data aligned up to paragraph level

• Automatic selection and viewing of parallel paragraphs in multiple languages

• Abstract and Metadata
• Printing and saving parallel data in Unicode format

Sample Screen Shot : Prabandhika

Tools: Vishleshika : Statistical Text Analyzer

• Vishleshika is a tool for Statistical Text Analysis for Hindi extendible to other Indian Languages text

• It examines input text and generates various statistics, e.g.:

• Sentence statistics
• Word statistics
• Character statistics

• Text Analyzer presents analysis in Textual as well as Graphical form.

Sample output: Character statistics

• Speech Technology and tools

Other Areas of expertise

Areas for future work