Sponsored Research Projects

Sponsoring Agency Title of project Amount of grant
(Rupees/USD)
Time period &
current status
United Nations University
Universal Networking Language (UNL) Rs 10 Lakh/
USD 22000
Nov, 1997 to July, 2000. Completed, with dictionaries and multilingual machine translation software developed for Hindi based on UNL, a language independent semantic representation for text.
Tata Consultancy services
Laboratory for Intelligent Internet Research Rs 70 Lakhs/
USD 155,000
April, 2000 to March 2004. First phase completed with preliminary systems developed for Semantics Extraction, Question Answering, Summarization and Word Sense Disambiguation.
Ministry of Information Technology
Technology Development in Indian Languages Rs 1 Crore/
USD 222,000
April 2000 to June 2004. First phase completed, with Wordnets developed for Hindi and Marathi and preliminary Machine Translation S/Ws for English, Hindi and Marathi at CFILT

Ministry of IT
Media Labs Asia Project Rs 80 Lakhs/
USD 180,000
January 2002 to December 2005. Developed a multilingual, Meaning based search engine, called AgroExplorer for the agricultural domain.
Development Gateway Foundation
Information and Communication Technology for Development (Language Technology Part) Rs 6.5 Crores/
USD 1,444,000 (total DGF project outlay)
July 2002 to March 2007. Working on Indian Language "Part of Speech Taggers" and Word Sense Disambiguation
Ministry of IT
Consortia project on Croos Lingual Information Retrieval with participation from leading institutes of India Rs 2.0 Crores/
USD 444,000
October 2006 to July 2009. Projects on Cross Lingual Information Access, Indian Language to Indian Language MT and English to IL MT
Tata Consultancy Services
Laboratory for Intelligent Systems (language processing part) Rs 2.0 Crores/
USD 444,000 (total project outlay)
July 2006 to June 2008. Indian Language Technology and IntellligentInformation Extraction