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Subject: Re: English-Hindi Dictionary Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:53:53 +0530 (IST) Dear Sri Haribans Sharma, All our dictionaries (http://www.iiit.net/ltrc/downloads.html) are available under GNU's General Public Licence (GPL). I have attached a copy of this license for your ready reference. This licence allows you to make copies of the dictionary and distribute freely. It also allows you to build on top of this dictionary or a part thereof and redistribute the resulting work. However essentially there is only one condition, the resulting work must also be licenced under GPL. GNU has one more license by name 'GNU Free Documentation License'. If you find this license suitable, then we can provide the dictionary under this license also. The GNU's Free Documnetation License is available at http://www.fsf.org/licenses/ With regards, Amba Kulkarni
In addition there are morphological analysers for some of the Indian langauges.
Funding for this work was through TDIL project, DOE,India.
Dr. Dipti Misra Sharma(dipti_{}abcdiiit.net) is the chief editor of this dictionary.
This dictionary(like other dictionaries on our site) is also available under GPL.
--- Amba Kulkarni
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Shree Devi Kumar wrote: > Hello Srinivas, > > > 1. I would like to acknowledge the people involved before I release it > > for public. Any additional information on the source of English to Hindi > > is appreciated. Shree: Can you give me any more details? > > Please see http://www.iiit.net/ltrc/Dictionaries/Dict_Frame.html > whuch has link to many dictionaries in ISCII. Vineetji will be able to > better answer your questions. > > > > 2. What should be the mechanism to add/correct the dictionary? Can I > > redirect users to Sanskrit_{}abcdcheerful.com? How can I get updated versions > > of the dictionary? I am currently using tab-delimited ITX version, which > > serves my purpose very well. > > The one on sanskritdocuments.org is probably version 1.0 of the dictionary. I had > taken that from the TDIL site which is not operational anymore - I think. We > also have a ITRANS version of 2.0 which was on bhajans.org - that is not > working either. We had converted the files from ISCII using IIIT's > converters developed by Ambaji. > > Since the messages are cc:ed to Vineetji I am sure you will hear from him > :-) > > Shree From: Srinivas Annam[Save Address] [Block Sender] To: "'Sanskrit Team_member'" Cc: samadhan_{}abcdmit.gov.in, vc_{}iiit.net, amba_{}iiit.net, shree_{}yahoo.com, sunderh_{}hotmail.com Subject: RE: FW: English to Hindi dictionary Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:13:37 -0500 Show Full Headers Trash As AttachmentInline Text Previous | Next | Hi, Thank you for the reply and for nice words about the site. 1. I would like to acknowledge the people involved before I release it for public. Any additional information on the source of English to Hindi is appreciated. Shree: Can you give me any more details? 2. What should be the mechanism to add/correct the dictionary? Can I redirect users to Sanskrit_{}abcdcheerful.com? How can I get updated versions of the dictionary? I am currently using tab-delimited ITX version, which serves my purpose very well. 3. Aksharamala product is certainly my brain-child but it certainly is not one man effort. Although, I have been working fulltime on this project for close to two years now, I also have a graphic designer and few other people for marketing. Our company is incorporated in India. We are also planning to setup a real office in India soon. I am not sure if have heard of return2india.com. I have created that site and SIFY bought it over in 2000. Of course, the site used to be maintained better then :-) 4. I know Shree since he provided lot of feedback for Aksharamala and had few emails with Vineet-ji (from IIIT, I presume), who are others? I would like to get to know more about all of you. 5. Would any of you or anyone you know be interested in creating content in Hindi? Specifically for Hindi section front-page in Hindi would be nice. Same goes for Marathi and Sanskrit (in future). Although, as of now, I won't be able to pay for your time I can certainly provide with few licenses of Aksharamala. 6. Do you know of any other content that is in GPL or other source-able formats? What about other content on sanskrit.bhaarat.com/The_Document_Project/hindi/ are they GPL'ed too? I can gladly convert the Bhajans, Chalisas to Unicode and host them in Hindi section. But, I can't figure out their licensing by reading the page. As of you now, Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit are priority. Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and others are coming soon. Btw, by any chance are you related to Harshad Abhyankar (returned from US to Pune before a year or so) Regards, Srinivas -----Original Message----- From: Sanskrit Team_member [mailto:sanskrit_{}abcdcheerful.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:47 AM To: annam_{}abcddeshweb.com Subject: Re: FW: English to Hindi dictionary Srinivas, The dictionary was supplied by IIIT from TDIL. See the note in http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/The_Document_Project/hindi/ (since the the main gde.to site is down at the moment) "The dictionary has been encoded by Technology Development for Indian Languages as part of the Anusaaraka project. The files which are in ISCII format have been made freely available under the GNU general public license." The TDIL's new site is http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/menu.htm. I have copied the message to a few friends who may know more about it. It was reformatted for presentation by Shree Devi Kumar. I think it was entered/translated by people in Ratlam and provided by group of people at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Hyderabad. Charles Wikner has written Sanskrit Introductory tutorial but not the dictionary. Your Aksharamala site is well done. The English-Hindi search engine is also appealing. Is yours a one man effort at deshweb.com? Hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Srinivas Annam Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:11:59 -0500 To: Sanskrit_{}abcdcheerful.com Subject: FW: English to Hindi dictionary > Hello, > Could you tell me whether I am allowed to make the popular English to > Hindi dictionary available online? I see Sanskrit_{}abcdcheerful.com as the > contact email but I was told by someone that this written by Charles > Wikner. > > It is being planned to made public from the following link: > http://www.aksharamala.com/hindi/e2h/search/search.php > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > Srinivas Annam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Srinivas Annam [mailto:annam_{}abcddeshweb.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:57 AM > Subject: English to Hindi dictionary > > Hello Sir, > > I have found a GPL'ed dictionary that (I was told) was created by you. I > would like to use this on my web site for the benefit of Hindi > enthusiasts. Could you tell me if it is ok? > > Here is the link for the online version: > http://www.aksharamala.com/hindi/e2h/search/search.php > > Thank you, > Srinivas Annam