Google Translate For Gujarati
23 Jun 2011

Google Translate For Gujarati

Google has extended its translation services to Gujarati language. Recently, Google added five more Indian languages – Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu – besides Hindi potentially increasing its reach to over 500 million people.

Google Translate

Research Scientist Ashish Venugopal has written the following note on The Official Google Post:

Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we’ve launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63.

Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering. This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations; the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada are also highly agglutinative, meaning a single word often includes affixes that represent additional meaning, like tense or number. Fortunately, our research to improve Japanese (an SOV language) translation helped us with the word order challenge, while our work translating languages like German, Turkish and Russian provided insight into the agglutination problem.

You can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of our more mature languages—like Spanish or Chinese—which have much more of the web content that powers our statistical machine translation approach. Despite these challenges, we release alpha languages when we believe that they help people better access the multilingual web. If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of our languages, please correct us; we enjoy learning from our mistakes and your feedback helps us graduate new languages from alpha status. If you’re a translator, you’ll also be able to take advantage of our machine translated output when using the Google Translator Toolkit.

Since these languages each have their own unique scripts, we’ve enabled a transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards. For example, if you type in the word “nandri,” it will generate the Tamil word நன்றி (see what it means). To see all these beautiful scripts in action, you’ll need to install fonts* for each language.

We hope that the launch of these new alpha languages will help you better understand the Indic web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages, taking us five alpha steps closer to a web without language barriers.

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7 Apr 2011

Infostretch Achieves ISO27001 Accreditation in Quality Assurance and Mobile Development

Santa Clara, CA April 6, 2011: Infostretch Corporation today announced that it has been conferred with the prestigious ISO 27001:2005 Information Security certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS).

“Infostretch is already an ISO 9001:2008 (Quality Management system) certified company, but as we continue to work on mission critical projects for large enterprises, Information Security became extremely important, “said Rutesh Shah, CEO at Infostretch “this certification comes as a testament to the stringent standards and processes that we follow to ensure information security throughout the organization.”

With this certification for Management of Information Security in Software Development; mobile app development and testing; Test Automation services and SaaS Solutions, Infostretch provides enterprise customers with the assurance of established protocols of security measures to protect their IT investments from information security threats and vulnerabilities.

ISO 27001 is the highest international standard for Information Security Management System (ISMS) that will underpin and protect the IT worldwide over the next decade. The audit for certification was conducted by BSI INDIA. Infostretch was evaluated for effectiveness in implementation of information security policies and procedures to protect customers and organization’s confidential information and intellectual property. With this, Infostretch has become one of the very few companies globally that have been awarded ISO 27001 accreditation.

This certification from BSI India (accreditation with ANAB) followed a rigorous audit, meeting ISO/IEC 27001:2005 requirements and standards – as published by the International Organization for Standardization, the leading international standard for measuring Information Security practices.

This certification shows that Infostretch takes information security very seriously and has the ability to manage its business to the highest professional standards. “ISMS is designed to meet our organization’s security needs on an ongoing basis and that will protect our client’s valuable information assets against potential security risks, issues and vulnerabilities” Said Rutesh Shah.

2 Apr 2011

Dhoni Leads India To World Cup Victory !

Dhoni Led India To The World Cup Victory In The ICC Cricket Final at Wankhede Stadium Mumbai.

Usually the major finals have been a disappointment. But the final between India and Sri Lanka was worth every penny spent. The match was dramatic from the word Go ! M S Dhoni won the first toss but Sangakkara claimed that there was confusion. The re-toss was won by Sangakkara and Sri Lanka decided to bat.

India had the early victories but Mahela Jaywardane stayed at the crease, as instructed by his beautiful wife, and scored the century in the final. Sreesanth could not rise to the occasion and the ever-tidy Zaheer was also sent packing by Lankans in his second spell. From a difficult start to 275, Sri Lanka had made a fighting score. As expected, Dhoni gave Tendulkar a bowling spell. Dhoni is a master charmer and he knew this was Tendulkar’s special match in his home ground and he just gave Tendulkar the chance.

Sri Lanka had the perfect start with Sehwag out in the second ball. Tendulkar could not achieve his dream of ‘Century of Centuries’ at home ground. When Tendulkar got out and India were 31-2, a strange silence and fear engulfed the entire India. Will India collapse again? Oh My God !

Thankfully Gautam rose to the occasion and Virat Kohli and he played the most sensible cricket. They dealt in 1s and 2s and marched towards the target milestone by milestone. First reached the 100, then 150 etc. Dhoni came in at the fall of Kohli. He came ahead of Yuvraj, the in form champion.

Dhoni’s master stroke was the X Factor of the match. He knew Murali and Sri Lankans very well – thank to IPL. He could take the pressure and wanted to lead from the front. He wanted to win. He showed his determination from the very first ball. He batted like a champion and his best knock of the tournament proved the cup-winning knock.

Dhoni has been a hallmark leader. Though he did not score runs, he has been a master strategist and a great reader of the game. He ensured that India was on target. He did not take any risk. He kept the score board ticking. He ensured that they treated Murali and Malinga with respect. He rotated the strike. He did not try to become a hero. He inched towards the target with strong determination.

Cheers to Kumar Sangakkara as well – Great speech by him. Extreme humility. Dhoni’s speech was good too – nice humour about proving a point.

Dhoni has a great midas touch. After T20 World Cup, No. 1 Test Ranking , he now has the World Cup for India. The 1.2 Billion Indians will love it. The celebrations have started in India. The positive effect of this will be felt all around. The overall confidence and optimism will help India as a country. The self-belief will be on rise.

Kapil Dev and Dhoni share many similarities. Kapil Dev’s 1983 world cup inspired a generation of cricketers. Dhoni’s 2011 world cup will inspire the next Indian achievers. India Shining ! Go India Go !

Jai Ho !

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