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Manish Kumar ¹, Vishal Goyal ², Jaskaran Bhullar ³

Affiliations
1 Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, IN
2 Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, IN
3 MIMIT, Malout

Abstract

Technical education plays vital role in the development of any state or country. Language also plays the major role in the educational development of any region. India is a Multi-lingual country where every region has their own prominent local language, which is the primary mode of communication and is also mode of basic education. On the other hand English plays the dominating role for providing Technical education in Punjab. In this paper we study the scope and challenge to develop a domain based Machine Translation system which can translate technical terms from Hindi to Punjabi to break the language barrier.

Keywords

Machine Translation, Optical Character Recognition, Higher Education, Hindi, Punjabi Technical Ambiguity, Non-Technical Ambiguity.

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Manish Kumar ¹, Vishal Goyal ², Jaskaran Bhullar ³

Affiliations
1 Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, IN
2 Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, IN
3 MIMIT, Malout, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Present paper is the report of the survey conducted to make a consensus whether technical education at Higher level should be provided in mother tongue in the state of Punjab. Survey has been conducted with primary data collected through structured questionnaire. Questionnaire was filled by various stake holders like students and teachers. Data was analyzed by the help of percentile, mean and presented by tables and figures.

Keywords

Technical Education, Translation, Transliteration, Survey, Mother Tongue, Medium of Instruction.

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