I would like to add one line to what Professor Dr. R.M.K. Sinha has mentioned. Practically India has 23 officially recognized languages viz. Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Thanks and regards, V.M.Sachdeva http://www.linguaden.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Prof. R.M.K. Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: [Mt-list] International Symposium on MT.NLP & Translation SupportSystems, Nov. 17-19, 2004 at New Delhi, India > > The International Symposium on MT, NLP and Translation Support > Systems (iSTRANS-2004) is scheduled to be held during November 17-19, > 2004 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India. > The International symposium on machine translation, natural > language processing and translation support systems, is intended to > act as a forum for promoting interaction among the researchers, > developers and users across the world in the general area of machine > translation and natural language processing. > India is a highly multilingual country with more than 18 officially > recognized languages and hundreds of dialects in use. These languages > are being used by millions of people in South Asia, South-East Asia, > Mauritius, Fiji and as minority languages in Europe, Canada and USA. > Thus India forms a good test-bed for testing translation strategies in > a practical sense. > > Scope: > The scope of the conference spans a wide spectrum of topics which > include (but not limited to) the following: > " MT Strategies for simultaneous translations > " RBMT > " EBMT > " SMT > " MEMT > " Corpus based MT > " Hybrid Systems > " NLP Grammar & Parsing > " Semantic & Lexical Resources > " Summarization > " Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval > " Translation Support Systems > " MT evaluation & Test Bed Design > " S2S MT > " Translation Front-end Systems (OCR, ASR etc) > " Translation Back-end Systems (TTS, fomatting etc) > > iSTRANS-04 is being held in association with SPLASH-2004. The > conference will have a number of key-note speakers who are actively > involved in R & D activities in this area. > > Contributions are invited for iSTRANS-04. You may submit an extended > abstract in electronic form to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] latest by 15th > September 2004. Acceptance will be communicated by 10th October 2004. > The deadline for receiving final manuscript is 20th October 2004. > > The conference website is: > http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/langtech/istrans04.htm > > Thanks, > RMK Sinha > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. R.M.K. Sinha > Professor > Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016 India > E-mail: rmk.iitk.ac.in > Home-page URL: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/rmk/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > MT-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.computing.dcu.ie/mailman/listinfo/mt-list _______________________________________________ MT-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.computing.dcu.ie/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
