Creating Language Resources for Nlp in Indian Languages

Non-availability of lexical resources in the electronic form is a major bottleneck for anyone working in the field of NLP on Indian languages. Some measures were taken to alleviate this bottleneck in a quick and efficient way. It was felt that if the development of these resources is linked with an example application then it can act as a test bed for the developing resources and provide constant feedback. Moreover, immediate results in terms of a performing system also enthuses the developers for such time consuming jobs. It was decided to take up the building of a machine translation system as an example application, which would also serve as a vehicle for building lexical resources.