Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam1 ON DEVELOPMENT OF ON-LINE ENGLISH-TELUGU TECHNICAL DICTIONARY PRESENTATION TO NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION

Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam

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ON

DEVELOPMENT OF ON-LINE ENGLISH-TELUGU TECHNICAL DICTIONARY

PRESENTATION TO

NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION THROUGH ICT (NMEICT) on 5/12/2009

Dr. D.Rama Sita

Mr. S.Srinivasa Rao


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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:[email protected]


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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.

BACK GROUND & MOTIVATION


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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



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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



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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 theircourse, students are facing severe language problem.



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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.



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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.



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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.

OBJECTIVES:


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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.

EXISTING ENGLISH TELUGU e-DICTIONARIES


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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;



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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.



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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.



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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.


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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.



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TARGET GROUP

Engineering, Diploma & ITI students from rural areas of Andhra Pradesh


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Broadly two parts

(i) Translation of technical terminology from English to

Telugu.

(ii) On line hosting of information.

METHODOLOGY:


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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.

TRANSLATION:


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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.

TRANSLATION:


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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

ON LINE HOSTING:


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S.No

Recurring Expenses (Rs.) Non-Recurring Expenses (Rs.)Requirement I Year II Year Requirement I Year II

Year

1 Man power 7,30,000 7,30,000 Establishment of a Library

2,00,000 -

2 Contingency 2,50,000 2,50,000 Computers and Server 5,00,000 -

3 Consumables 1,00,000 1,00,000 Software 8,00,000 -

4 Miscellaneous 50,000 50,000

Total 11,30,000 11,30,000 15,00,000

Total (Ist Year) Recurring + Non-recurring expenses = Rs. 26,30,000

Total (IIst Year) Recurring + Non-recurring expenses = Rs. 11,30,000

Total(I+II year) Recurring + Non-recurring expenses = Rs. 37,60,000

FINANCIAL AND OTHER SUPPORT REQUIRED


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S.No

Activity Months

3 6 9 12

15 18

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1. Establishment of a library √

2. Compilation of technical terms and making a glossary

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3. Telugu translation from existing translation works

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4 Telugu translation of remaining with the help of linguists

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5. Creating Database √

6. On-line hosting √

7. Feedback √

TIME BOUND SCHEDULE OF DELIVERABLES FROM THE PROJECT


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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

OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT


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THANK YOU


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Dr Paul Raj Engineering College, Bhadrachalam1 ON DEVELOPMENT OF ON-LINE ENGLISH-TELUGU TECHNICAL DICTIONARY PRESENTATION TO NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION