"Breaking the Language Barrier in Education"
10/01/2023
IIT Bombay signs MOU with Maha govt for 'Project Udaan' The collaboration aims to facilitate the translation of all books and publications concerning conventional as well as professional courses into Marathi language as outlined NEP 2020.
10/01/2023
Driving Change! Know How IIT Bombay & Maharashtra Govt Plans To Break Language Barrier In Education The Maharashtra government and IIT Bombay have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ‘Project Udaan' to build an AI-backed translation software ecosystem that effectively translates all books and...
10/01/2023
Mumbai: IIT Bombay's Udaan project aims to translate textbooks in Marathi soon The tool is to be utilised by universities in the state to ensure that all students have access to academic literature irrespective of what languages they can read.
10/01/2023
Campus Talk: Project Udaan by IIT Bombay proves a game changer in translating textbooks into Indian languages The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), along with Project Udaan team, is currently translating the second and third year engineering textbooks into 12 Indian languages, as well as 20 first year textbooks in Malayalam.
07/01/2023
Project Udaan https://udaanproject.org/ won the best paper award under the Demo track at CODS/COMAD 2023!
05/01/2023
Launch of Project UDAAN on 14 September 2021 Hindi Divas
05/01/2023
AICTE Acknowledges the Team of the Project UDAAN Lead By Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, IIT Bombay AICTE acknowledges the team of UDAAN project lead by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan from IIT Bombay, for providing their Novel end-to-end Machine Learning Framework that includes extensive use of lexical resources and a post editing platform. The team is comprised of Mr. Rishabh Iyer, Assistant Professor
05/01/2023
Project Udaan | IIT Bombay | प्रोजेक्ट उड़ान PDF Link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TcjRG4Wr5L6Y0iPBaz5V6rQ6S9syGMWL/view?usp=drivesdkFacebook Link -https://www.facebook.com/GKFactsDCAInstagram Li...
05/01/2023
The UDAAN project (https://www.udaanproject.org/) from IIT Bombay, led by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, has been providing an end-to-end Machine Translation Framework for translation of technical content into Indian languages and is being widely used. Aicte India, in its announcement on 27-12-2022, has specifically acknowledged this contribution at https://www.aicte-india.org/content/aicte-acknowledgement-udaan-team-iit-bombay-technical-book-writing-scheme.
"The UDAAN Team helped immensely in speeding up the process of translation of technical books. The strong foundation of their data-efficient machine learning approaches organized at http://decile.org has immensely helped this platform. Thus their work is based on continuous research resulting in faster turn-around time for correcting errors and fine-tuning the translation models in a low-resource setting. IIT Bombay is sincerely trying to continuously upgrade and upkeep the UDAAN platform based on valuable inputs from AICTE, coordinators & translators/reviewers for translation work of technical books into different Indian regional languages."
05/01/2023
An MoU was signed today between the Directorate of Higher Education and Director of Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in the presence of Honorable Governor Shri. Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Minister of Education Shri. Chandrakant Patil and Principal Secretary - Directorate Of Higher Education Shri. Vikas Chandra Rastogi, IIT Bombay’s Director Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri and Dean (R&D) Prof. Milind Atrey.
The collaboration aims to facilitate efficient and effective translation of all books and publications concerning conventional as well as professional courses into Marathi language as outlined in the National Education Policy 2020 using the UDAAN project (https://www.udaanproject.org/) lead by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan at IIT Bombay.
05/01/2023
After a MOU signing ceremony today, IIT Bombay’s Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan made a presentation to all the Vice Chancellors of Universities in Maharashtra, explaining how the UDAAN platform (https://www.udaanproject.org/) is an end-to-end Machine Translation framework that includes extensive use of lexical resources and a post-editing platform. The ecosystem enables rapid translation of documents for rapidly bringing technical works into publishable state. The work is based on continuous research work resulting in faster turn-around time for correcting errors and fine-tuning the translation models in low-resource settings.
05/01/2023
The Honorable Governor of Maharashtra Shri. Bhagat Singh Koshyari called upon the Director of IIT Bombay Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri, Dean (R&D) Prof. Milind Atrey and Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan today to further discuss the importance of a key collaboration and the widespread implications of appropriate incorporation of technology for social good.