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Preksha: A Hindi Text Visualizer
Ms. Priyanka Jain*
Email: priyankaj@cdac.in
W“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.” Albert Einstein language, I developed a new technical andering in many Indian regional dimension for my
remote places with my father with passion when I joined
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speech). At that tender age, we were good at catching up with new nearby friends and chatting in self-made protocols either in sign language or in pictographs. These strengthen my power of interaction as well as a sense of imagination of un-uttered words. I pursued with this creative aspect of my imagination by reading, writing and painting while having comics and drawing-pads endurable friends of mine since childhood.
Keeping keen interest in literature and
2000. I have been
fortunate to work on the
project ‘Learn Indian
languages through Artificial Intelligence - LILA’ as a part of a natural language processing team. What that a coincident? or destiny? It taught me to visualize human-computer- relation with various aspects. I worked on core research for ‘Machine Assisted Translation Tool – MANTRA’ for projects such as MANTRA- RajyaSabha and MANTRA-Rajbhasha. Both
* Ms. Priyanka Jain, PhD Scholar from Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Maharashtra, is pursuing her research on “Preksha: a Hindi Text Visualizer”. Her popular science story entitled “Preksha: A Hindi Text Visualizer” has been selected for AWSAR Award.