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MT and Overcoming Language Barrier

Brief History of Machine Translation

Anusaaraka: a tool to reduce language barrier

Anusaaraka: A better approach to Machine Translation

ANUSAARAKA: A tool to overcome language barrier

Salient Features:

  • Provides gloss for each word
  • Faithful Representation
  • No loss of information
  • Reversibility
  • Text in other languages accessible with little extra effort

Reduction in language barrier

 Script  learn few extended symbols
 Spellings -
 Vocabulary  learn few highly ambiguous words
 morphology -
 syntax  learn few parameters

Claim: Language learning efforts reduced from

Few months to few days: In case of Indian langauges
Few years to few months: In case of English

Towards Machine Translation

If the languages are close enough, then load on user is very less.

However, if the incompatibility increases, the load on user is also increases.

Can we further reduce the load on user?

Analogy:

Incommensurability:
Solution:
 2D Drawing of a 3D  structure  Provide different views of the 3-D structure:

 For example: Plan (top view), Elevation (front view), Side  view
 among langauges  Provide glosses from different views

 Word Sense Disambiguation, movement of function words,  Descrambling

 

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