Seminar on Indian Language Computing by Prof.Rajeev Sangal Group

[M K Saravanan <mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear friends,

  At MIT Campus, (Anna Univ.) we have formed a centre called "The
AU-KBC Centre for Internet & Telecom Technologies" from the fund given
by
our former student Mr.K.B. Chandrasekar who is the co-founder and CEO of

Exodus Communication Inc., Silicon Valley, USA.  He has given a fund of
Rs.1 crore for this centre with the primary purpose of  Indianising the
Internet and develop entrepreneurship quality among students.

  Currently we are working in the area of "Network Security --
Cryptography", Tamil Search Engine, Optical Character Recognition etc..,

We are planning to form a small working group consists of various
organisation like software developers, students, tamil scholars etc..,
to
discuss the various issues related to Indian Language Computing and to
develop Indian Language tools (especially tamil) for Internet.  Hope our

some of the ilugc  members will be interested in participating the
activities of our
centre atleast through email.

 Also Coming December 21st (tuesday) we are planning to conduct a
discussion meeting with Prof. Rajeev Sangal Group on Indian Language
Computing and particularly with Machine Aided Translation.

 Prof. Rajeev Sangal and Prof. Vineeth Chaitanya are both from IIT
Kanpur
earlier and has been developing a open source code software called
"Anusaaraka
System" for translating from one Indian Lang. to Other Indian Language.
CUrrently they have successfully implemented Telugu to Hindi
translation.
They have been working in Natural Language Processing for the last 16
years.  They are coming to MIT to discuss the possibility of developing
anusaaraka system for Tamil to other IndianLanguages.  especially tamil
to
other dravidian languages. It is purely a voluntary collaborative effort

with open source code following GNU's General Public License like LINUX.

Further they agreed to conduct a two day seminar on this, on 22nd and
23rd
Dec. 1999.  IF some of the ilugc members are interested in these, they
can
join this seminar. There is no registration fees.
  Those who are interested to participate in this seminar (key focus is
given how to build anusaaraka system for tamil to other indian lang.)
can directly contact to my email address.

with regards,
mks


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M K Saravanan,
Design Engineer,
The AU-KBC Centre for Internet & Telecom Technologies,
Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University,
Chrompet, Chennai 600 044.
Tamilnadu, INDIA

email: mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ph & FAX (Off):  (091) (044) 2402711
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