We present a compendium of 110 Statistical Machine Translation systems built from parallel corpora of 11 Indian languages belonging to the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian families. We analyze the relationship between translation accuracy and the language families involved. We feel that insights obtained from this analysis will provide guidelines for creating machine translation systems for specific In...

Dr. Philip May's article in this volume, "Alcohol Policy Considerations For Indian Reservations and Bordertown Communities," represents a valuable contribution to the public debate concerning alcohol abuse on and near Indian reservations, and the range of policy options available to Indian tribes. As a practitioner in the field of Indian law, I am in substantial agreement with the main themes o...

Raaga is the spine of Indian classical music. It is the single most crucial element of the melodic framework on which the music of the subcontinent thrives. Naturally, automatic raaga recognition is an important step in computational musicology as far as Indian music is considered. It has several applications like indexing Indian music, automatic note transcription, comparing, classifying and r...

Primary prevention concepts have been widely applied to health problems of American Indian people. When applied to mental health issues, and the problem of suicide in particular, primary prevention intervention methods may not be effective. As an alternative, secondary and tertiary interventions directed at the prevention of suicide are examined, including evidence for their effectiveness, and ...

In 1955, responsibility for the health care of American Indians and Alaskan Natives was transferred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the U.S. Public Health Service and the Indian Health Service was established by Federal Legislation (P. L. 83-568).’ Since 1955, approximately 41 5 dental officers have been employed and subsequently separated from duty in the Indian Health Service. The succes...

This paper elucidates a practical solution to an Indian accented English text to speech synthesizing system. The paper covers the complete procedure to generate the speech signal of the text, in Indian accented voice. The technique described considers the various prosodic features that need to be incorporated into the synthesized speech to make it appear natural and in the way an Indian speaks....

BACKGROUND Indian manufacturers of generic antiretroviral (ARV) medicines facilitated the rapid scale up of HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries though provision of low-priced, quality-assured medicines. The legal framework in India that facilitated such production, however, is changing with implementation of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual ...

a total of 3528 specimens of freshwater turtles belonging to two families viz., geoemydidae (brown river turtle, kachuga smithi; indian saw-backed turtle, k. tecta; brahminy rrive turtle, hardella thurgi; spotted pond turtle, geoclemys hamiltonii) and trionychidae (indian soft-shell turtle, aspederates gangeticus; peacock soft-shell turtle, a.hurum; narrow-headed soft-shell turtle, chitra indic...

The employment is a requisite if one wants to have a normal life, decent meals and a place to stay; it socializes the people and gives them some survival and esteem feeling in the society. Besides that Employment boosts personal well fear, morale integrity and self confidence. In India economy is diverse where employees are employed in agriculture, handicraft, a wide range of modern industries,...

In this paper, we present a generic anaphora engine for Indian languages, which are mostly resource poor languages. We have analysed the similarit ies and variations between pronouns and their agreement with antecedents in Indian languages. The generic algorithm developed uses the morphological richness of Indian languages. The machine learn ing approach uses the features which can handle major...