Browsing INFLIBNET's Convention Proceedings by Subject "Multilingual Computing"
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Idicula, Sumam Mary; S, David Peter (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: The goal of this work is to develop an Open Agent Architecture for Multilingual information retrieval from Relational Database. The query for information retrieval can be given in plain Hindi or Malayalam; two prominent regional languages of India. The system supports distributed processing of user requests through collaborating agents. Natural language processing techniques are used for meaning extraction from the plain query and information is given back to the user in his/ her native language. The system architecture is designed in a structured way so that it can be adapted to other regional languages of India. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/493 Files in this item: 1
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Nair, Shivashankar B (INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: While English has predominantly maintained its lead both as the lingua franca of the Internet and also for basic man-machine interactions, the need of the day is a system that can cater to the native by facilitating such communication in the language he is most comfortable. This calls for the realization of Multilingual Systems that can present the same information in a variety of languages. The term Multilingual Computing in the present context refers to systems that are capable of running programs that accept, process and present data in more than one natural language. The concerned language for interacting with the computer may be selected at the time of invocation or use of the program. Such multilingual systems do not fully overcome the man machine barrier. The user still has to comprehend and react to the cryptic messages presented in the language of his choice. The problem can be overcome only by the use of natural language processing systems that can translate user commands and queries in his native language to machine level commands, facilitate execution and present the results in a manner that is very akin to the responses of a human being. This paper discusses the basic issues in the formulation of such multilingual systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/492 Files in this item: 1
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J S, Rajeev; R, Chitrajakuma; K H, Hussain; N, Gangadharan (INFLIBNET Centre, January 2, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: Indic Language Computing can be fully realized only through embedding vernacular scripts in operating systems. With the advent of OTF (Open Type Font) embedding local scripts in OS compliant with Unicode has become a reality taking computing beyond word processing. Microsoft has already come to this field strongly by embedding Devanagari in MS Windows. Compared to the closedness of Microsoft OS, free and open environment of Linux is ideal for the early accomplishment of multilingual computing. This paper describes initiatives of Rachana team in embedding Malayalam script in GNU/Linux operating system. Modules are added for KDE with its rendering engine QT so that the original exhaustive character set of Malayalam developed by Rachana is embedded fully in compliance with Unicode. For the first time, prospects are open to create DBMS and information systems using Malayalam script. Computing in Malayalam language is being initiated in the true sense only now. The procedures set up by Rachana-GNU/Linux is highly beneficial to the goals of INFLIBNET in fulfilling a total integrated bibliographic control of Indian literature in their native scripts. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1509 Files in this item: 1
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