ON DEVELOPMENT OF ON-LINE ENGLISH-TELUGU TECHNICAL DICTIONARY

1. PRESENTATION TO NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION THROUGH ICT (NMEICT) on 5/12/2009 ON DEVELOPMENT OF ON-LINE ENGLISH-TELUGU TECHNICAL DICTIONARY Dr. D.Rama Sita Mr. S.Srinivasa Rao Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

2. NAME OF THE INSTITUTION Dr. PAUL RAJ ENGINEERING COLLEGE (Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,Hyderabad) BHADRACHALAM, KHAMMAM DISTRICT ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, PIN: 507111 Phone No: 08743-231550 URL: www.dprec.com Email id:dprecinfo@rediffmail.com Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

3. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • Information Technology in the world is evolving as an effective tool. • The increased use of ICT is enabling people across the globe to participate in the knowledge network. • In India also lot of development took place in this area. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

4. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • Indian IT Companies like TCS, Wipro and Infosys made their name in the world maket • IT Industry contributed to a GDP growth rate of 6% • India is supplying the IT professionals to the world Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

5. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION A “Mission Education through ICT” with a clear cut aim to • provide the benefits of ICT to every Indian learner. • reducing the digital divide. • enhance the current enrollment ratio in higher education. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

6. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • India is one of the most linguistically complex countries in the world. • 2001 Indian census - there are 29 languages with more than one million native speakers each. • More and more Indians are expected to getting online access. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

7. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • Still in India, larger populations in the rural areas are being deprived of the benefits of the use of ICT. • One of the main reasons for this seems to be the language barrier. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

8. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • A person with manageable acquaintance with English may not feel much comfortable to work with computer systems in English because the documentations, system manuals, help menus etc. are mostly available in English. • Since, most of the rural population are not well acquainted with English and they prefer to learn/understand in their mother tongue. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

9. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • Due to this reason, most of the rural population are unable to exploit the fruits of ICT. • In the country like India with diversified cultural groups and languages, ICT usage can be promoted by making the content available in local languages. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

10. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • The content in local languages will be vital to promote their enthusiasm and facilitate their understanding. • There is an urgent need for language computing works especially in education sector. • Microsoft, Google and Face book also have translated their products into local languages. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

11. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • These initiatives provided a strong foundation for language computing works in India. • A massive translation initiative ‘National Translation Mission’ (NTM) started in the year 2006 also feels that the “technical terms in all disciplines and all 22 Indian languages” is an important task. • Still, it is an open task which requires efforts of technical experts and linguists etc Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

12. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • Telugu is the third most spoken language in India. • In Andhra Pradesh there are more than 600 engineering colleges and 150 (approx.) Polytechnic colleges and ITI’s with 2.5 lakhs students coming out every year. • Especially in the first year of their course, students are facing severe language problem. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

13. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • JNTU - H results revealed that in 1st year B.Tech course pass % is ~25% and 4th year pass % is 65%. • The language barrier is severely affecting the students who are passing through the transition phases. • Technical terminology in Telugu can breach this language barrier. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

14. BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION • This project being proposed aims at developing a technical dictionary in Telugu and provide on-line access to the users . • India is producing more than 4.8 lakhs engineers every year and A.P. contribution about one lakh. • The proposed compilation will enhance the learning skills of the technocrats from A.P. Which in turn will improve the quality of the output. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

15. OBJECTIVES: • To translate and compile technical terminology of various engineering disciplines from English to Telugu. • To provide on line access of this content to the target group. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

16. EXISTING ENGLISH TELUGU e-DICTIONARIES In Telugu language e-DICTIONARIES, The following dictionaries are available on line. SAHITI.ORG- ENGLISH-TELUGU DICTIONARY - Online query engine of three different English to Telugu dictionaries; interface entirely in Telugu. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

17. EXISTING ENGLISH TELUGU e-DICTIONARIES CHARLES PHILIP BROWN’S A TELUGU-ENGLISH DICTIONARY - Online searchable edition of Charles Philip brown's a Telugu-English dictionary, new ed., Thoroughly rev. and brought up to date - 2nd ed. Madras: promoting Christian knowledge, 1903. Includes Telugu and roman alphabets; Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

18. EXISTING ENGLISH TELUGU e-DICTIONARIES J.P.L. GWYNN'S A TELUGU-ENGLISH DICTIONARY - Online searchable edition of John Peter Lucius Gwynn's a Telugu-English dictionary, Delhi; New York: Oxford university press, 1991. ENGLISH-TELUGU DICTIONARY: Online query interface to the reprint of the 1853 edition of the English-Telugu dictionary by Charles Philip brown; it has been converted into Unicode from the open source version. Contains meanings for 31,580 English words/phrases. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

19. EXISTING ENGLISH TELUGU e-DICTIONARIES WORD ANYWHERE HINDI-TELUGU-ENGLISH DICTIONARY – Provides the meaning of hindi and telugu words (typed as itrans) in english and the meaning of english words in hindi. It allows wildcard and phonetic searches.The dictionary presently has over 46,000 words. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

20. EXISTING ENGLISH TELUGU e-DICTIONARIES LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE CENTER HINDI DICTIONARIES The shabdanjali English-Hindi e-dictionary and downloadable Hindi dictionaries for English, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Punjabi, Calita Bengali, Dishi Bengali, also with an English-Telugu dictionary - all downloadable files are in .Tgz format, which are gzip compressed files in tar archive format. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

21. EXISTING ENGLISH TELUGU e-DICTIONARIES ANUKRITI.NET HINDI-TELUGU COMMON VOCABULARY - Presents translation tools for all Indian languages, including Hindi-Telugu common vocabulary. Most of these are facsimile editions, and browse sequentially. MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER FOR HINDI-TELUGU-MARATHI - Morphological analysis for Indian languages. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

22. TARGET GROUP Engineering, Diploma & ITI students from rural areas of Andhra Pradesh Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

23. METHODOLOGY: Broadly two parts (i)      Translation of technical terminology from English to Telugu. (ii)   On line hosting of information. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

24. TRANSLATION: • Constitution of Cross Functional Team. • Idea Generation. • Interaction with experts and the target groups through various modes. • Identify the technical words in English pertaining to various disciplines of engineering and make a glossary. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

25. TRANSLATION: • Search for the appropriate Telugu translation from the already translated works (English-Telugu dictionaries etc). • If no already developed translation is available for the words, then make new translation with the help of linguists. Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

26. ON LINE HOSTING: • Constitution of a team • Idea Generation • Identification of infrastructure (server, software and connectivity) • Procurement of infrastructure • Design and Development of data base • Coding and Testing • Pilot run • On-line access to the target group Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

27. FINANCIAL AND OTHER SUPPORT REQUIRED Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

28. TIME BOUND SCHEDULE OF DELIVERABLES FROM THE PROJECT Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

29. OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT • English-Telugu technical dictionary • It can boost the morale and facilitate the understanding of technical terminology of Rural area technical students of Andhra Pradesh • This initiative can definitely improve the learning skills of this group • Encourage and enhance the computer usage Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

30. THANK YOU Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

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