On the 11th day of Toornayaad, Hindi literature festival, Narayan Chaudhary, Assistant Director, Indian Language Institute addressed the students on Thursday. He addressed the seminar under the guest lecture series.
He spoke on the topic of ‘Employment opportunities in Language Technology and the efforts being made by the Government of India in the field of Language Technology’. Chaudhary has made many contributions to the field of language development. Chaudhary was the winner of the UGC Net Lectureship Award for two consecutive years in 2003 and 2004. At the same time, he has been respected in many countries including Poland, Ireland at the global level as well. Highlighting the employment opportunities in language technology, Narayan said that today there is a trend of artificial intelligence whose natural language processing is a part of natural language processing.
It shows the ability of a computer to understand human language.NLP has employment opportunities for two types of people - linguists and software developers. Under NLP, we can create many things including chatbot, translator in self-language. Today many big companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc. are working towards the use of technology in Indian languages, but the results are not satisfactory.
It is necessary that we Indians come forward and collect data from different languages of India and work on it ourselves. The new era is based on technology, if today we do not work on language technology then our languages can become extinct, he added.
Addressing the youth, Chaudhary said that in the coming times, a lot of opportunities are available on language technology. Many colleges can apply for training in this field. A lot of data in this field is made available to a researcher free of cost by Government institutions.