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UNL:
Universal Networking Language
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A Language
for Information Exchange and Transfer over the Internet
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 The UNL project is a large scale international cooperation
with the goal to provide information on the internet in all national
languages of the members of the United Nations. The United Nations University (UNU)/ Institute of Advanced Studies
in Tokyo which leads the project has developed a single representation
language ``Universal Networking Language'' (UNL). Source language specific
analysis components will automatically transfer texts into a UNL
representation from which target language specific generation components can
generate text in all languages. These generation components will be available
as plug-ins for WWW-browsers. This approach reduces the enormous translation
task to a one-time analysis into a UNL document and the subsequent
utilization of a generator for the selected target language.
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The UNL project is projected by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)
of the United Nations University for a duration of 10 years. The development
of the language specific components is carried out in close cooperation with
international research institutes, universities, governments, and industrial
partners all over the world. IIT Bombay has been entrusted with the task of
enconverting Hindi to UNL and deconverting UNL to Hindi. Additionally, it has
a responsibility of English enconversion.
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- Documents can be presented in all of the
world's languages
- Avoiding multiple translations, a document has
to be transferred into UNL only once
- Hindi lexicon with 70,000 entries
- Large scale international cooperation
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Research Insitute
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IIT, Bombay
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Principal Investigator
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Prof. Dr. Pushpak
Bhattacharyya
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Contact
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Dr. Pushpak
Bhattacharyya
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Phone
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(+91)(22)5767718
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Fax
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(+91)(22)5794290
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E-Mail
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pb@cse.iitb.ernet.in
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