Tamil Machine Translation

Machine translation in Tamil

Tamil is one of the few classical languages still alive today. It is spoken by more than 77 million people across the world. There is a lot of research going on to find ways to translate between Tamil and other languages.

Research Centers:

Anna University, Chennai, India has AU-KBC (Anna University - K.B.Chandrasekar) research centre. It is a forerunner in Tamil machine translation. It has developed a small application, English-Tamil Machine Aided Translation System, with lot of limitations to translate from English to Tamil.

There is a NLP Research Group in Amrita Univsersity that aims to develop a robust machine translation system for regional languages such as Tamil and Malayalam.

Conferences:

Tamil Internet Conference is conducting conference every year. Many scholars are presenting papers in these conferences.

Resources:

Languages in India is the best online resource. It has many scholarly articles related to machine translation in Tamil and other languages. And the articles are freely available.

Books:

Dr.S.Kamakshi, Prof.S.Rajendran, Preliminariess to the preparation of a machine aid to translate linguistics texts writtern in English into Tamil, DLA Publications, 2004.

Rev.C.T.E.Rhenius, A Grammar of The Tamil Language, American Mission Press, 1853