MAchiNe assisted TRAnslation tool

MANTRA translates the English text into Hindi in a specified domain of Personal Administration, specifically Gazette Notifications, Office Orders, Office Memorandums and Circulars. The utility of MANTRA has to be viewed in the context of the Indian environment, its socio-economic and demographic conditions, its historical background and above all the transitory phase India is passing through presently. Translating from one language to another, particularly of a different family, covers a very broad spectrum. The strategy adopted here is - NOT WORD-TO-WORD... NOT RULE TO RULE.... but a LEXICAL TREE-TO-LEXICAL TREE. MANTRA uses the Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) formalism to represent the English as well as the Hindi grammar.

The MANTRA Technology is being expanded to translate English texts into other Indian languages such as Gujarati, Bengali, and Telugu. The accuracy rate of translation in these languages is considerably high. Besides, it is also being expanded to translate Hindi text into English in the specified domain of personnel administration, as well as other domains like Banking, Transportation and Agriculture.

The Salient Features of MANTRA are:

• Format Retention (Font sizes, alignment, styles)
• Input to MANTRA can be through:
  • .rtf (Rich Text Format) or .htm file created using standard DTP packages
  • Speech recognition program
  • Optical Character Recognition Package
• Pre-processing Tools:
  • Phrase Marker
  • Proper noun, Dates and other domain specific identifiers
  • Spell and Grammar checker
• Uses Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) for Parsing and Generation
• Custom modifications to the Earley's style bottom-up parsing algorithm to speed up the parser
• User friendly selection tool for multiple outputs
• On-line word addition and grammar creation, updation facility