Hyderabad, March 31: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Wednesday launched the Machine translation system here at the 20th International World Wide Web conference in Hyderabad which is developed by 17 various institutions including International institute of Information Technology (IIIT).
According to the director IIIT Hyderabad Mr. Rajeev Sangal Machine translation system works very well for the translation of several languages, Indian languages in particular. The tools are available in three modules Sampark (Indian to Indian), AnglaMT (English to Bengali, Malayalam, Punjabi and Urdu) and Anvadaksh (English to Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Oriya, Urdu and Tamil).
Mr Sangal said “India has more than 122 languages of which 22 are official. More than a billion people all over the world either speak or understand Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil or Urdu.”
Talking to the media persons after the formal inauguration of the system Mr. Sangal said, “With the availability of e-content and development of language technology, best opportunity is provided to overcome the language barrier and cope up with the complications.”
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