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About ILDC
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India is a multilingual country with as many as 22 scheduled languages
and computer technology breaks the language barrier and bridges the gap between
the various sections of the society through easier access to information using their
respective languages and hence language computing becomes central to the exchange
of information across speakers of various languages.
Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme initiated by the Ministry of
Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. India has the objective to develop information
processing tools to facilitate human machine interaction in Indian languages and
to develop technologies to access multilingual knowledge resources. Ministry of
Electronics & Information Technology launched another major initiative called National Rollout
Plan to aggregate these software tools and to make these available through a web
based Indian Language Data Centre (ILDC). This activity is being executed in close
coordination with CDAC,GIST,Pune. Under this user friendly software tools and fonts
are being made available free for public through language CDs and web downloads
for the benefit of masses.
The availability of these software tools, fonts and resources in local languages
at no cost is intended to motivate general public to use ICT tools and technology
in their day to day work like Word Processing, Presentation preparation, Spread
Sheets preparation, Web Page Surfing & Designing, Messaging etc. in local languages.
Further, the consolidated availability of linguistic resources and tools at one
place will help researchers to carry out their research in a smooth and efficient
manner.
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