Framework for Synthesis of Universal Networking Language

Abstract

This paper presents the specification of Universal Networking Language (UNL), a project undertaken under the auspices of the United Nation University (UNU) in Tokyo and for a framework for integration of Bangla language to UNL. The mission of the UNU project is to allow people across nations to access information on the internet in their own languages-a step bridge the digital divide. The core of the project is UNL, a language independent specification for serving as a common medium for documents in different languages. Researchers involved in this project from different countries have been developing UNL systems for their respective native language. The process basically involve i) building native language to UNL dictionary and ii) deriving language specific syntactic rules called analysis rules for parasing/translating native language corpora to UNL and vice versa. In this paper we present parallel work for developing a framework for synthesizing Bangla to UNL that involves building a bangla to UNL dictionary and parsing sentences to UNL. To the best of our knowledge, this is a pioneering work in Bangla.