Recipient Institution:
Language Processing Research Unit (LPRU), Kathmandu University

Project Leader:
Sanat Kumar BISTA, Lecturer and Project Leader of the Language Processing Research Unit (LPRU)

Amount and Duration: US$ 29,990 / 18 months

Commencement Date:
January 2005

Abstract of Project
Due to the fact that most of the information available over the Internet is in English, proficiency in English is required to understand them. The number of internet users in Nepal is growing rapidly but only a small portion of the total population can read and understand English. Since Nepali is the national language of this country, Nepali can be read and understood by majority of the population. In such a condition, English to Nepali Machine Translation system can play an important role to remove digital divide due to this language barrier.

The MT project being proposed aims at developing a web based engine that can translate general English texts to Nepali on demand. Transfer based approach, probably with some modifications to suit this language pair, will be used to develop the main translation engine. Server side scripting and HTML will be used to glue the engine with a web server.