Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Mahiti.ORG's indic language input requirements

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:33:40 +0530
"sunil" <su...@in...> wrote:

> Questions and replies to Koshy, Harsha and Karunakar
> 
> On Koshy's <ko...@fr...> mail:-
> I agree with your division of the project into   (1) a widget or
> framework that allows WYSIWYG creation of HTML pages including
> tables. (2) an input method that can handle indian languages
> 
 Is (1) intended to be done remotely, I mean something like a web
based content development ?

> 
> My options are...
> 1. http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.php.

  This seems to be  a good one.

> 
> On Karunakar's <kar...@fr...>:-
> >  Their work is mainly in foll.
> >   ISCII plugin - view ISCII based web pages,
> > using locally installed fonts , supports many popular fonts ,
> > including CDAC ISFOC  & bharatbhasha's  shusha fonts.
> 
> Does this completely address 'display' of local language content for
> Mozilla/MSIE on Window and *nix.
  To a large extent.  I have put the linux verion at 
http://www.indlinux.org/downloads/iscii_plugin_linux.tar.gz
 in *.rc files the font names need a little change

DV TTYogesh
DV1 TTYogesh
/.netscape/plugin-iscii/dvngri.map
ALLOWED_PUNCTUATION_MARKS = ! ' ` ( ) / : ;

DV TTYogesh becomes dv_ttyogesh
this is to get the font name properly on linux

> 
> > Anusaaraka -
> > Machine transalation for indian languages. Right now only indlang
> > to indlang supported, English  to hindi in development.  English -
> > indian lang dictionaries in ISCII format.
> 
> Is this translation or transliteration? Sorry to ask a dumb
> question. What is time frame on this project.

 Translation ,  Transliteration AFIAK is writing a language in a
script other than the native one. Like ITRANS / JTRANS, which write
Hindi using latin script.

they have build up a big database of indian language words, based on
rules Anusaraka processes the input text, makes searches in database
for suitable translations for words & gives output in a readable
format in target language. Contact  Vineet Chaitanya <vc at iiit.net> 
& Amba Kulkarni  <amba at iiit.net> for more details about their
plans. Also I have put up the files I had at 
http://www.indlinux.org/downloads/ANU.tar.gz

> 
> Can you give us more details of what you are are doing. Also can to
> tell us why you are doing this? Are you converting the dictionaries
> for 'Anusaaraka'? We are newbie Java and Indic-computing people.
> Where to we start with the work done by IIT. You must know by now
> what our end goal is.
> 
 I want to use the dictionary for GNOME/KDE translations. Once I have
a basic set of words translated from the GNOME glossary ( which has
the most commonly uses terms ) & the english-hindi dictionary , then
we can automate the translation process a bit.  Does running your app,
on top of indix or iitm X work ? 

Regards,
Karunakar