[smc-discuss] Malayalam Automatic translation

Aboobacker MK aboobackervyd at gmail.com
Mon May 18 01:48:19 PDT 2015


Machine translation is not a magic . and it's mechanisms are not specific
to english . malayalam is a complex language ,so it will take more time to
complete the process . we still don't have a morphological analyser which
can effectively handle agglutination . so let's wait instead of blaming
current status :-)
On 18 May 2015 13:29, "Tom Vellaringattu" <tomvell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wonderfool
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On May 17, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Hussain KH <hussain.rachana at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Wonderful!!
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> Yesterday I received a Malayalam message from my friend. I tried the
> google auto translation. The  message and its translation are pasted here.
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> "പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട ഹുസൈൻ മാഷിന്,
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> ഇന്നലെ ഹുസൈൻ മാഷെ വിളിച്ചു സംസാരിക്കണമെന്നു തോന്നിയിരുന്നു.. ഫോൺ
> വിളിച്ചപ്പോൾ കിട്ടുന്നില്ല.. എന്താണെന്നറിയില്ല നമ്പർ മാറിയതാണോന്നും
> അറിയൂല.. നമ്പർ ഒന്നു കൂടെ തന്നാൽ സന്തോഷം... :)"
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> "Hussain favorite ture,
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> Nobody has told Hussein appeared yesterday called the phone is not getting
> called, Man .. .. .. No. No. മാറിയതാണോന്നും അറിയൂല lose the joy with one
> ... :)"
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> Friends,
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> CDac, Thiruvananthapuram has been trying to develop algorithms for
> automatic translation for Malayalam for a decade and often they were
> telling in public seminars that they have achieved 50% or 60% (as in the
> case of Malayalam OCR). Many money and talents have been spent for the
> research. I was telling from the very beginning that Malayalam is not a
> language like English of French and the efforts and methodology should be
> completely re-checked and redefined, other wise you are not going to
> achieve a satisfactory result in hundred years. I think Google is also
> travelling in the same wrong direction.
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