national translation mission (india), a new government funded program Options

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Translation has a future. The National Knowledge Commission, set up in 2006 by the Prime Minister, has cleared the setting up of the National Translation Mission (NTM) in just the last week of June. To be implemented by the Mysore-based Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), the ambitious exercise will also involve the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the National Book Trust (NBT), the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Sahitya Akademi, the Granth Akademies and public library networks.

NTM will be expected to make available good-quality translation of knowledge-based texts into all eighth Schedule languages — that's 22 at the last count —Assamese, Bangla, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali Oriya Punjabi Sanskrit Santhali Sindhi Tamil Telugu And Urdu. Its brief includes generating high-quality translation tools such as dictionaries and software, education of translator, development of scientific and technical terminology in all of the above and promotion of machine translation and machine-aided translation.

The plan is to translate 2,500 books in this plan period and another 8,000 in the next five years. The central government has released Rs 99 crore under the 11th Plan. Part of these monies will be used to hire the 8,000 translators 2,000 copy editors and 2,000 evaluators required for the mission.

[vaathsyaayana]

(i) A few other articles that I'd like to translate. Any help appreciated.

If you can, here are three articles, published in scientific journals, that I'd like to translate (preferably into Tamil, but if you can help me translate them into any other language, that would be appreciated too):

1. Hunter PJ, Borg TK. "Integration from proteins to organs: the Physiome Project." Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 2003 Mar; 4(3):237-43.

2. Coveney PV, Fowler PW. "Modelling Biological Complexity: A Physical Scientist's Perspective" Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 2005 (2): 267–280

3. Yates A, Chan CC, Callard RE, George AJ, Stark J. "An Approach to Modelling in Immunology" Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2001 Sep; 2(3):245-57.

To be honest, there are a number of points in the second article that I don't even understand myself. Nevertheless, I'm going to try - and I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me.

All the above articles should be accessible free of charge. If you find that this is not the case, please let me know.

This post has been edited by vaathsyaayana: Jul 30 2008, 02:26 AM