IIIT-Hyderabad’s Language Technologies Research Centre celebrates its Silver Jubilee
Deccan ChronicleChennai: International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad’s Language Technologies Research Centre celebrated the 25th year of its inception with a two-day event over the weekend that included several talks and panel discussions on the vision, mission, evolution and future of language technologies. In addition to these models, LTRC released synthetically generated and curated 10 billion Bhashik datasets for Indian language to Indian language pairs; a generic dataset, one in the Education domain that works across 17 different fields in English and 5 Indian languages and one for the Health domain in English and 8 Indian languages. For the first time in Indian languages, a dataset for automatic post editing of text and machine translation evaluation has also been made available. Initially focused on areas like Machine Translation, Semantic Parsing, and Information Extraction, the centre has expanded its research portfolio to include Speech Recognition, Text Generation, Sentiment Analysis, Dialogue Systems, and more.