KBCS Activities at C-DAC

Abstract

C-DAC is India's national initative in high-performance computing, covering both technology and applications development. Two main frontiers which are being addressed to are supercomputing and Al, based on parallel processing architectures. The KBCS Nodal Centre at C-DAC is pursuing research in development of graphics and intelligence based systems technology (GIST) for language processing. The basic technology has already been developed for uniform script processing for all living languages. This technology is being enhanced to cover raster image processors, OCRs, and speech input/output systems. Simultaneously, attention has been focussed on NLP for Indian languages. Sanskrit is being explored as a metalanguage for NLP. For this purpose symbolic language processing environments have been developed with Devanagari interface. A prototype tutoring system has been realized for Sanskrit in the Paninian Grammar framework. The ultimate objective is to provide comprehensive solution to language processing covering script, word and sentenace processing for all living languages, with immediate focus on Indian languages.

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