Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Project Initiation

EngSin Translator is one of the very first translators to be demonstrated to public. Currently at the development stage it is capable of handling simple sentences within a limited vocabulary. The project team consists of me (Ziyan-Junaideen), Pasindu and Pramod.

EngSin Translator was first presented to the public at the EngEx2010 Engineering Exhibition at University of Peradeniya. Currently at the development stage EngSin Translator has shown encouraging results that it would soon fill the vacuum of a Sinhala English translator.

As a new technology that is relatively new, it achieved considerable attention from the general public in general and professionals in particular. We are happy to see the attention we have gained and would make it a motivation to enhance the software and distribute it soon.

Currently, EngSin Translator is only capable of translating English sentences to Sinhala. It consists of a bilingual dictionary of about 5000 words (and growing). It is capable of handling simple sentences in active-voice which are not questions.

Due to the limitation of labor, any initial release would not contain a large vocabulary. There for we are enabling the users to add definitions to the database while using the software. We expect to collect these definitions and redistribute it among the community.

During the exhibition we detected defects in the software and have started rectifying them. Once completed, we are hoping to make the first release of the software soon. It would be free and you are encouraged to share it among your pears. The more people would use it, the larger the vocabulary would be.

Expected 1st release : Early November