[Indic-computing-users] Pres. Kalam on Indic Computing

[Venky H. <ve...@vs...>]

A lesser reported part of President Kalam's recent speech delivered at IIIT,
Pune focussed on Indic computing.

Venky


http://presidentofindia.nic.in/S/html/speeches/others/may28_2003_2.htm

One of the ingredient for the country to become a developed country is that
its languages must also be developed in a digital era. That means we must
have search engines, word processing tools, optical character recognizers.
Speech recognizers, automatic summarizers, and machine translators. I am
aware about the complexities of the problem. I suggest that I2IT Pune need
to contribute in the development of Language Technologies particularly
Indian Languages.

Knowledge Management, Information extraction and retrieval pertaining to
English and Indian languages have to be developed in an integrated way.
Civilisation that does not have the knowledge of technology or the
technological nations without experience of civilization, cannot innovate
newer economy.