Natural Language Processing (N.L.P)


Natural  Language Processing  (NLP)  is a technique  of engineering   languages through machine (computer) by which we can overcome the language barrier and the difference between the man and machine.To devlop asystem that understands and generates natural language is one of the most challenging attempts in Artificial Intelligence(AI).The system must have thorough knowledge about the structure of the language including what the words are, how they contribute to the meaning of the sentence and to the context within which they are used. With this sincere motive we have developed some basic information tools to facilitate human machine interaction in Oriya language. These tools can be used for Oriya language studies and research areas like Oriya Machine Translation (OMT), Oriya Speech Processing and Understanding, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) etc. Moreover, it can beintegrated with innovative user products like Machine Translation, Word Processor, Spell Checker and Thesaurus etc. Some of the major achievements in this area that we have achieved, are building OMT, Ori-Net (Word-Net for Oriya), Trilingual and Monolingual lexical resources, developing Parsers, Morphological Analyser and Spell Checker for Oriya language. The current activities in machine learning are semantics and syntactic based machine translation, machine learning of morphological analyser, machine learning of transfer grammar and transfer lexicon. Basic research relating western linguistic theories with the theories in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition is also carried out to achieve a concrete setting of applications in the field of language technology. We have obtained IPR for four of our products from the MHRD, Govt. of India in 2002. For the product like Sanskrit Word-Net is in the pipeline for obtaining IPR. we have devlop the follwing products.

1.
ORIDIC[e-Dictionary (Oriya -English-Hindi)]
2.
OriNet (Oriya WordNet )
3.ORI-SPELL-CHECK(Oriya Spell Checker)
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Trilingual Word Processor
5.Oriya Grammar Checker
6.Oriya Morphological Analyser
7.Oriya Machine Translation (OMT)
8.San-Net (Sanskrit Word-Net)