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IT Terms in Hindi

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द्वारे द्वारे ज्ञान संपदा

सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी विभाग, संचार एवं सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्रालय के मार्गदर्शन में सी-डॅक की 'द्वारे द्वारे ज्ञान संपदा' परियोजना द्वारा डिजिटल लाइब्रेरी की दस लाख पुस्तकें जन-जन तक पहुँचायी जा रही है |

पुस्तक मुद्रण हेतु फॉर्मेट की गई पुस्तकों का चयन, वेबसाइट से निम्नलिखित श्रेणियों के आधार पर किया जा सकता है:
� भाषा
� लेखक
� शीर्षक
इसमें हिंदी व अंग्रेजी की 350 पुस्तकें उपलब्ध हैं | जिन्हें वेबसाइट से डाउनलोड किया जा सकता है | यह वेबसाइट हिंदी व अंग्रेजी भाषाओं में उपलब्ध है |

Wired News: Pick a Language, Any Language
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02:00 AM Jun. 07, 2003 PT

Like the elite group of government agents on the 1960s television show, a group of computer scientists and natural language experts were given a "mission" earlier this week: within a month, build a program that translates between English and a randomly chosen language.

The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, challenges researchers to quickly build translation tools when unforeseen needs arise.

The exercise is designed to imitate the need for translation during a national security threat, like a terrorist act, war or humanitarian crisis.
The element of surprise in the project is critical. Since Monday, computational linguistics research groups from around the country have been gathering resources on the pop-quiz language, Hindi.
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In theory, this Hindi-and-English system could be useful for the military or the media, for instance, who want to monitor the ongoing tension between Pakistan and India.

"You'd be able to read what the Indian newspapers are saying and what Hindi organizations are putting up on their websites -- whether they are terrorists or high schools, for example," said Eduard Hovy, director of the natural language group at the Information Sciences Institute.

"Every paper has a slant, and the slant that the local population is reading is important to understand if you may be going there," Oard said.

Still, the challenge is only an exercise for these researchers, and there are no plans to continue funding the system built this month.
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Complete article..

hi_IN.UTF-8 - viewing the Hindi content

A help page for Unicode Devanagari installation on Windows and *nix systems. By Alok Kumar.

Glossary translated in Hindi Copyright NCST 2002

The English Class System by Sankrant Sanu on Sulekha.com

Also, English is by no means nuetral in the Indian context. Languages come with histories of words and meanings, very little of the English language is related to our history or culture. As soon as one starts studying words and languages from that angle one realizes that there is a huge cultural context that languages carry. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't learn English -- I advocate that throughout -- in a cultural sense it gives us a window into another culture, but we shouldn't become English and lose our own context of understanding, which is what English medium education does to us.

Virtual Hindi - Grammar Lessons

@ New York University Web Site

Linux PR: IndLinux.org announces launch of Hindi interface for computers

IndLinux.org's Milan software enables Hindi users to use computers in their own language, a major leap forward in bringing the benefits of information technology to Indian masses
IndLinux.org announced the launch of IndLinux Milan v0.37, a Hindi interface to Gnome, the graphical user interface (GUI) of the GNU/Linux operating system. The software is available as a free download from the Web site www.indlinux.org. With IndLinux Milan v0.37 installed, those who can read and write Hindi can now use computers in their own language.

The organization said that this is a major step forward in bringing the benefits of information technology to the 400 million people who speak the Hindi language. Prakash Advani, co-founder of IndLinux.org said that the organization has been working on localizing the GNU/Linux operating system to Hindi for the last three years. Localization involves changing the menus and other elements of the graphic user interface from English to Hindi.

"Hindi is the third largest language in the world, yet there are no operating systems available in this language. IndLinux.org therefore decided to make Hindi support available for free to create a revolution in Indian Language Computing," said Advani.

Bharat Me Angrezi Banam Hindi by Mark Tully (Hindi translation by Prem Pal Sharma)

How to easily use hindi in Windows 2000/XP

Shabdkosh

Urdu-Hindi shabdakosh in Shusha created by Suman K Ghai. A good resource for checking the meanings of Urdu words found often in shaayari.

Shaayarii--Urdu Poetry and Hindi Kavita - Nagari version of most of Nita's Urdu Poetry site

"On this page I have made an attempt to write the text in Hindi which already exists on Urdu Poetry Archive created by Nita Awatramani. She has made a tremendous effort to put the Urdu poetry on the Net. Even though I do not know Urdu but I do enjoy the poetry. So here I am trying to write it in Hindi."

Urdu Dictionary by Usman Qazi

"My objective is to come up with a (Urdu/Hindi)=>(Urdu/Hindi) thesaurus. I will keep developing the follwing list, which is partly my own and partly taken from a word-list by a Mr. Sitaraam Shastree. Then, with people's help, I'll try to get a thesaurus out of it. Etymology will also be added as time permits. As my formal Hindi is rudimentary, I need help in grouping Sanskrit words as well as in acurately identifying their more common synonyms. The grouping will be as follows (c) common bo:lcaal (e) educated speech (f) formal/bookish/poetic/pompous

"I have tried to follow the standard Sanskrit transliteration. Although we're limited to ascii. kh. , gh. and zh occur in words of Persian/Arabic origin. I don't know what to do with the two Sanskrit (sh) sounds as well as the several Arabic (t) and (z) sounds, etc. I'd leave them for higher order Maulaana/Pandit sahibs."
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Writing Hindi (Devnagari) in Unicode

By Peer Wandel Hansen