A Computer-Assisted Study of South-Asian Languages

在1991-1993年期间，本项目由印度政府人力资源部迈索尔印度语言中央研究所(Ciil)和东京外国语大学亚非语言与文化研究所(ILCAA)联合开展，以建立关于阿萨姆语、古吉拉特语、信德语和乌尔都语(印度-雅利安语)的计算机数据库，马拉雅拉姆语(德拉威甸语)和克扎那加语(藏缅语)编纂上述语言与日语的双语词典，并编写这些语言的语法和读者，将对日语学习者有用。6日本语言学家和2名印度语言学家共同努力记录所调查语言的口语基本词汇，并收集这些语言的文学教育词汇。并将口语词汇和文学词汇输入计算机作为数据库。使用ILCAA的主机型计算机和…直到1911年，才有可能用12种不同的印度语言生成连续的文本，统计文本中每个单词的使用频率，分析上下文中关键字的数据，并按字母顺序打印文本中的单词，每个单词的前面和后面的上下文。在1991-92年间，拉贾普罗希特博士在大型计算机上开发了另外三种印度文字(Kannada、马拉雅拉姆和泰卢古)的字体和文字处理程序。由于Ciil的活动是基于个人计算机的，而ILCAA的活动是基于主机的，因此发现有必要通过引入一些代码转换程序来使输入的数据相互可读和可分析。为此，Mchida先生开发了一种名为CATUR的程序，可以在PC上进行各种处理工作，并成功地建立了通过任何印度或日本制造的PC软件馈送的任何印度语言数据之间的完美通信系统。较少

8 ABSTRACT OF PROJECTDuring 1991-1993 the present project has been jointly carried out by CIIL ( Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India ) and ILCAA ( Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo ) to build up the computer data base on Assamese, Gujarati, Sindhi and Urdu (Indo-Aryan languages), Malayalam (Dravidian) and Khezha Naga ( Tibeto-Burman language ) for compiling bilingual dictionaries of the above-mentioned languages versus Japanese and also of preparing grammars and readers of these languages which would be useful for Japanese learners.6 Japanese and 2 Indian linguists worked together to record colloquial basic vocabulary of their investigated languages and also to collect literary educational vocabulary of the same. And the colloquial as well as literary vocabularies were both input into a computer for the data base.With ILCAA's main-frame computer and … More developed programmes, till 1911 it was possible to generate a continuous text in 12 different Indian languages, to count frequency of each word used in text, to analyze the data for key word in context and also to print the words in the text, alphabetically arranged with the preceding, with the preceding and the following context of each word. During 1991-92 Dr. Rajapurohit developed the fonts as well as the word processing program for three more Indian scripts ( Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu ) on the main frame computer.Since the CIIL's activity is based on Personal Computer whereas the ILCAA'S activity is main-frame based, it was found necessary to make the input data mutually readable and analysable by introducing some code-conversion program. For this purpose Mr. Machida has developed such a programme called 'CATUR' as can serve all sorts of processing work based on PC and also has successfully established a perfect communication system among any Indian language data fed through any PC software of Indian or Japanese make. Less