Chapter No 5 Information In Indian Language

Chapter No -4                                                        Information In Indian Language

Q.1 Fill In the blanks.

(1)  Documents and websites in regional languages can now be created because of  unicode

(2)  Devangari   script is used to write or type in Marathi.

(3)  Mangal font is used for typing in   Marathi   language

(4)  ASCII is a character  encoding system

(5)  Phonetic conversion of text from one script to another is called Transliteration .

(6)  Inscript  Keyboard maps an Indian script on an English keyboard.

(7)  The Google translate Web Element allows to instantly view web pages in other language.

Q. 2. State whether the following statements are true or false: (1 mark each)

(1)Unicode will make e-governance applications possible for all the constitutionally recognized Indian languages.  True

(2)  Systems which recognize Unicode can read and process data in only one language.  False

(3)Unicode is also known as the Universal alphabet. True

(4)  All Unicode fonts support multiple scripts. False

(5)  Transliteration and translation mean the same. (March '14) False

(6)Google dictionary is method to look-up word meanings across languages. (OR Google dictionary is integrated in Google Translate and shows meanings and parts of speech of some words being typed.) True

(7)Google Translate is a free automatic translator. True

(8)You can translate an entire web page directly from Google Translate. True

(9)  Google Translate supports translation into Marathi. True

(10)                     Marathi Wikipedia has more than 40 lakh articles. True

Q. 3. Multiple choice questions: (Single Correct Answer) (1 mark each)

(      1)  The Unicode specification (standard) was created to make documents readable operating systems and platforms.

(a) Encryption (b) decryption (c) Unicode (d) coding

(2)  Unicode is also known as UTF-8

(a)  Universal font (b) UFT-8 (c) UTF-8 (d) Uni-8

(3)  Transliteration is related to phonetic (representation)

(a)  phonetic (representation) (b) translation (c) compression (d) (phonetic) encryption

(4)  The Google Translate Web Element makes a website available in other languages.

(a)  Search Element (b) Web Element (c) Engine (d) Indexing

(5)  English Wikipedia was launched in  2001

(a)  1990 (b) 2001 (c) 2003 (d) 2008

(6)  Presently, Marathi Wikipedia has more than 35 thousand articles.

(a) 41 lakhs (b) 35 lakhs (c) 51 thousand (d) 35 thousand

Q. 4. Multiple choice questions: (Two Correct Answers) (2 marks each)

(1)  ASCII And Unicode are character encoding standards.

(a)  ASCII (b) UNIX (c) Unicode (d) LINUX

(2)  Kokila and Mangal fonts can be used to type in Marathi.

(a)  Karthika (b) Kokila (c) Mangal (d) Vrinda

(3)  Phonetic and InScript are the types of keyboard used for typing in languages.

(a)  Unicode (b) Phonetic (c) Mangal (d) InScript

(4)  Google Transileration  and Google Dictionary are built in google translate

Q.5 ANSWER IN BRIEF

(1)What is Unicode? Or Why is Unicode called the Universal Alphabet ?

A.   Unicode is the universal character encoding standard, developed by the Unicode Consortium. Unicode Standard, Version 6.3.0, assigns a unique identifier (i.e., number) to more than 1 million characters, covering all the major, minor and historic scripts of the world, and many mathematical and other symbols. Unicode allows a single document to contain characters or text from many scripts and languages, and allows such documents to be used on all computer systems, whatever the operating system or language.

(2)Explain the necessity of using Unicode ?

A.   The Unicode is necessary because

1.      In a multilingual country like India, it is essential that tools for information processing in local languages are developed and made available at low cost for wider proliferation of 1CT. Use of Unicode will resolve the issues of compatibility across scripts, platforms and operating systems.

2.      All major operating systems, browsers, editors, word processor and other applications and tools are supporting Unicode.

3.      It will make e-governance applications possible for all the constitutionally recognized Indian languages.

4.      The documents created using Unicode may be searched very easily on the web.

(3)What is UTF-8 ?

A.   UTF stands for UCS (Unicode Character Set) Transformation Formats. UTF-8 encodes each of the more than 1. million Unicode characters using one to four 8-bit bytes. UTF-8 encoding standard ensures that data and documents are stored in a consistent manner so that there is no problem while transporting documents across operating systems, proof checking, translation and searching.

(4)What is Inscript Keyboard ?

A.   InScript (Indian Script) keyboard layout is the default option for text entry in Indian languages. Since the basic character set of the Indian languages is common, the mapping of the characters remains common for all the Indian languages, written left to right. In this layout, all the vowels and vowel signs are placed on the left side of the keyboard layout and the consonants on the right side.

(5)What is Phonetic Keyboard ?

A.   The phonetic keyboard uses the normal English keyboard and works on phonetic transiteration. The user types in English script the words as they are pronounced in another language like Marathi. The transliteration software called an Input Method Editor (IME) renders or converts them into Marathi script.

(6)What is transliteration ?

A.   Transliteration is the conversion of a word or series of words in a source language into a corresponding word or series of words of a target language. In translation, a sentence in the source language is re-expressed in the target language by using the correct script, words and grammar of the target language while retaining the meaning.

(7)Explain Google Transliteration ?

A.   Transliteration is the conversion of a text from one script to another. Only the speech sounds are converted, irrespective of the meaning. In transliterating into Marathi using an English keyboard, the typed text in English is phonetically converted to the similarly pronounced letters and vowel signs of Marathi. Transliteration does not convert an English word into the corresponding word of the same meaning in Marathi.

(8)Give the Marathi transliteration of the following using Google IME:

a)     namaH      b) veL           c)  RuShI    d) vRutta

(9)Give the Marathi transliteration of the following using Google IME:

a)     uShmA       b) mahisa   c)  gaNadhish     d) ThaMDA

(10)                       What is Google Translate Web Element ?

A.   Google Website Translator or Translator Web Element is a plugin powered by Google Translate. It can be embedded in a web page to make the web page available in other languages. International visitors to the website will be offered a language selector to view a translated version of the web page in their language. On selecting a language, the Website Translator sends the text of the web page to Google Translate and displays the translated text without reloading or redirecting visitors from the page.

(11)                       Write a short note on Wikipedia ?

A.   Wikipedia was conceived as a free online encyclopedia. It was launched in January 2001. As of April 2014, it has more than 31 million articles in 287 languages, which include 18 Indian languages. Wikipedia is publicly editable. Users registered with the website can create new articles or make changes to existing articles. Wikipedians are people who write and edit the pages for Wikipedia; neither are they paid nor there is any public recognition, only their knowledge-sharing behaviour motivates them to contribute. Articles and edits are peer reviewed for language and trustworthiness of content.

(12)                       Write a short note on Marathi Wikipedia.

A.   Marathi Wikipedia (mr.wikipedia.org ) was launched on 1st May 2003 and is the 8th most visited Marathi language website. As of April 2014, it has only around 40 thousand articles, as compared to more than 45 lakh articles in English. Marathi Wikipedia therefore needs more informative articles for the benefit of the Marathi people who are not well conversant in English.

Q.6   Answer the following.

Explain Google translate in detail.

A.      Google Translate It is a free automatic translator that uses natural language processing. Presently, it can translate between 80 languages which include ten Indian languages, viz., Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. To translate, one selects the source and target languages and starts typing. When translating from an Indian language, the user can type phonetically, or use the onscreen virtual keyboard, or select the source language keyboard on the Language Bar. After the space bar is pressed, the translation of the typed word will be displayed in the target script. There is a built-in dictionary, and corrections can be made by selecting the translated word or phrase. Google Translate can translate a document or an entire web page.