scholarly journals MT Embedded E-Learning in India - Challenges for NLP/AI

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2577-2582
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All ◽  
New Education

Indian languages are spoken by more than 90% of its population while most of the higher education happens in English medium. The policy makers in Indian government have realized that by introducing multilingual education electronically, they can reach out to the remotest corner of India and educate all in their mother tongue. The New Education Policy (NEP) draft just released by the government puts a heavy focus on mother tongues in education. The recent initiatives and focus on Natural Language Processing/ Artificial Intelligence (NLP/AI) in education through e-learning is not too surprising in this context. The paper presents the current initiatives in these directions by the government of India, surveys available NLP technologies particularly those for automatic translation of educational content developed by academia and industry and focuses on the Maithili language community. India's education needs are diverse and the success of e-learning depends heavily on the availability of necessary NLP tools in all languages. Almost all of major scheduled Indian languages are considered "resource-poor". While some of these languages may have the basic tools, they lack quality translation tools for delivering education in native language. The situation is more challenging in those languages where even the most basic resources and tools do not exist. Maithili - a language of Bihar and Nepal is such a language. The paper also presents an effort to develop MT resources and tools for Maithili and its application in delivering multilingual content for education.

The MLE Teacher: An Agent of Change or a Cog in the Wheel?

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Urmishree Bedamatta
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Eastern State ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agent Of Change

This article examines the role of the multilingual education (MLE) teacher in the mother tongue-based MLE program for the Juangas, a tribe in Odisha, an eastern state of India, and is part of a broader study of the MLE program in the state. For the specific purpose of this article, I have adopted Welmond's (2002) three-step process: identifying culture-specific knowledge about the role of a teacher; examining the state's education objectives that influence teachers’ behaviour and experiences; and focusing on the behaviour and experience of teachers at the local level. These three steps constantly merged into one another during the examination of the subject under discussion. The paper recognises that the MLE teachers are not only first-generation teachers, but also first-generation practitioners of MLE, and therefore need to be resourceful and experimental in their classroom practices. However, given the national imperative to achieve universal elementary education by 2015, within the para-teacher framework adopted by the Government of India, the MLE teacher seems to be just a means to an end.

scholarly journals The Implementation on Using Google Classroom for Online Learning for Elementary School Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 173-177
Author(s):  
Fiki Setiawan ◽  
Hery Prambudi ◽  
Pipin Supenah ◽  
Supriyatin Supriyatin
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
Community Service ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All

The government has issued various policies to stop the spread of COVID-19. One of them is online learning (on the network) which is carried out by almost all levels of education in Indonesia. Learning models are developed based online (e-learning). Nevertheless, on the other hand, the implementation of online learning experiences obstacles such as teachers' lack of knowledge and skills in managing to learn online. This community service aims to improve the abilities and skills of elementary school teachers in using e-learning applications based on Google Classroom in helping the online learning process during the pandemic. The target of this activity is the Gegunung Village Elementary School teachers. Execution method using lectures, practicum, and question and answer. Training participants are given an understanding concept about distance learning media or online and practising use of the Google Classrooms application. The results of this activity include training participants very enthusiastic about participating in the training. The Gegunung Village Elementary School teacher can understand the use of google classroom with an indicator that the teacher can create online learning. The Gegunung Village Elementary School teachers have operated the application Google Classroom as an alternative medium. However, assistance still needs to be done until the teacher understands and uses Google Classroom as an online learning medium during the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Digital India

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Chinnu Rajan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
The People ◽  
Ambitious Program ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Government

Digital India is the result of numerous advancements and innovative headways. These change the lives of individuals from numerous points of view and will engage the general public in a superior way. The 'Digital India' program, an activity of respectable Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, will emerge new movements in each part and creates inventive attempts for geNext. The thought process behind the idea is to construct participative, straightforward and responsive framework. The Digital India drive is a fantasy undertaking of the Indian Government to redesign India into a learned economy and carefully engaged society, with great administration for nationals by bringing synchronization also, co-appointment out in the open responsibility, carefully interfacing and conveying the government projects and administrations to activate the ability of data innovation crosswise over government divisions. Today, every country needs to be completely digitalized and this program endeavours to give rise to profit to the client and specialist co-op. Henceforth, an endeavour has been made in this paper to comprehend Digital India – as a crusade where advancements and network will meet up to have an effect on all parts of administration and enhance the personal satisfaction of nationals. Digital India is a program to convert India in to a digitally empowered society ,and knowledge economy. It is an ambitious program of Government of India projected Rs. 1, 13000 crores. This project is delivering good governance to people and coordinated with both State and Central Government. All government services are available to the people electronically. This program will be implemented with the help of electronics and information technology department (DeitY).All States and Territories will get the benefits. Digital India infrastructure will provide high speed secure internet, Governance and services on demand. All the services are available through online, so it increases the speed of work and reduces the time. It will provide digital literacy to all people in India and availability of resources and services in Indian languages. The implementation of digital India from 2015-2018.

Subsidized Energy Pricing in Bangladesh and Consequences of Phasing Subsidy Out

2012 ◽  
Vol 622-623 ◽  
pp. 1896-1900
Author(s):  
Asif Ahmed ◽  
Choudhury Mohammad Shahariar ◽  
M.A. Rashid Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Energy Pricing ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Phase Out ◽  
Energy Subsidy

Subsidized energy pricing is a practice that has been followed by almost all the countries, especially developing countries. Despite the requirement of energy subsidy for an economy like one in Bangladesh, it is a parasite that slowly eats up government money and blocks the process of sustainable growth. Bangladesh is not a country which has enough energy resources to sustain for the long run. So, proper consumption and less wastage is a must requirement. Thus, phasing out energy subsidy through a gradual process is the only way to go forward. But, rationalizing energy subsidy has some consequences over the society, economy and environment. So, it is high time to promote rational energy pricing and to prepare for the consequences. The government and policy makers are expected to add up with the steps they are already taking to phase out energy subsidy and thus go for better energy security. In this paper we have discussed the present energy pricing in Bangladesh and the consequence she is going to face if subsidy is phased out. Also we have shown the environmental consequences due to energy subsidy along with a set of proper recommendations for our government to take Bangladesh in the path of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Traffic Conditions and Route Choice of Road Users Between Two Roundabouts

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-450
Author(s):  
Lin Zarni Win ◽  
Kyaing ◽  
Ko Ko Lwin ◽  
Yoshihide Sekimoto ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Route Choice ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Conditions ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All

This study aims to present the traffic conditions of one of the most congested areas in Yangon as well as the route choice behaviors of the road users in that area. It analyzes drivers’ route choice behaviors and traffic congestion according to road segments. Manual traffic counting and roadside interview methods were used in this survey. The data gathered were used in finding routes alternative to the U Htaung Bo road, which is extremely congested almost all the time. With regard to the report, it will be helpful to identify the scale of the problem that is caused by traffic congestion and to increase awareness of this issue, including amongst the government, policy makers, traffic engineers, and road users.

scholarly journals Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education Challenges: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
pp. 10-23
Author(s):  
Edgar R Eslit
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
Challenging Environment ◽  
The Government

Considering its implementation, the linguistic and cultural diversity of Mindanao, however, brings much complexity to the issue of language policy in education. With Mindanao’s more than 26 provinces and over 25 million population (Philippine Statistics Authority, 2005), the government offers a challenging environment for implementing a language policy that is supposed to serve all Mindanao regions and the rest of the country.

scholarly journals A statistical model for automatic Error Detection and Correction of Assamese Words

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 6111-6116
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Error Detection ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Computational Point ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Error Detection And Correction ◽  
Assamese Language

Digitization of local languages is getting importance in the present scenario and the Language Processing task is also becoming popular among the Linguistic and IT people. It is very common that most of the people are comfortable with their native mother tongue. Writing of corrected word-form is also an important task in the digital platforms for the future existence of a language. In this research work, the Assamese language is taken as a Natural Language which is processed in the experiments. The Assamese language is one of the Indian languages and the research & development of the Assamese language is going on; from the computational point of view, Assamese is in the development phase. In Assamese, there are some similar characters which are phonetically same but their glyphs are different these characters or symbols often cause confusion to the users while writing, these types of characters are specially taken into consideration in this research work. A list of 14 confusing characters pairs of Assamese letters is taken for experimental purpose. In addition, this research work has focused on errors of Assamese words, which are checked by using bigram and trigram models. Moreover, the proposed model also tries to find the erroneous character which causes the incorrectness and shows the suggestions for that incorrect character. A score based system is designed for the Assamese characters and each character is assigned a score from their probability of occurrences by using bigram and trigram language models. Different types of experiments are performed to check the correctness of the Assamese words and the proposed model is able to check the correctness of the Assamese word with accuracy ranging from 81% to 86%. Error rate in Assamese can be reduced by using this model in any digital platform where a user can type in Assamese

Inflation Indexed Bonds

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Sidharth Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Trade Deficit ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Indexed Bonds ◽  
Retail Investors ◽  
High Inflation ◽  
The Government

In 2013–14, the Indian government issued Inflation Indexed Bonds for institutional investors and Inflation Indexed National Savings Securities for retail investors. The immediate trigger for the issue of inflation indexed securities was the coincidence of an increase in trade deficit, an increase in gold imports and a period of high inflation, leading policy makers to conclude that households were increasing their gold holdings as a hedge against inflation. It was expected that investors would use the Inflation Indexed Bonds to hedge against inflation and reduce their demand for gold. However, response to the inflation indexed securities was poor and the issue was not considered a success. The government must now decide whether this was a case of wrong policy or wrong execution.

scholarly journals Production Potential of Rubberwood in Malaysia: Its Economic Challenges

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jegatheswaran RATNASINGAM ◽  
Geetha RAMASAMY ◽  
Florin IORAS ◽  
Jake KANER ◽  
Lu WENMING
Keyword(s):  
Raw Material ◽  
Wood Biomass ◽  
Production Potential ◽  
Wood Industry ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Environmental Friendly ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Supply ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All

Rubberwood (Hevea brasiliensis) has emerged as the most important source of wood raw material in Malaysia. Being a plantation crop, it is regarded as a green and environmental-friendly material that has found applications in almost all sectors of the wood industry. Despite its importance as a socio-economic sector, the future of the rubberwood industry in Malaysia is under scrutiny. The steadily declining rubber cultivation area in the country is raising alarms about the future supply of rubberwood. Although the government provides a replanting subsidy for smallholders, who make up the large proportion of the growers, there is an urgent need to enhance the profitability of rubber growing activities. Efforts to enhance the full recovery of wood biomass available and also expanding the use of rubberwood in high value applications must be pursued rigorously, to arrest the declining interests in rubber cultivation. Policy makers must ensure that rubber cultivation remains economical and the net value of rubberwood is further enhanced through application in non-traditional sectors.

scholarly journals Addressing Linguistic Diversity with Three Language Formula: A Case Study of Newa Schools in Newa Settlements

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Toya Nath Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
International Language ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
Practical Strategy ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Electronic Recording ◽  
The Government

Nepal, as a multilingual nation, has constitutionally adopted mother tongue based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) policy in 1990. However, implementation of this policy into practice has been taking considerably a long time. This study, primarily focused on Newa Schools in Newa Settlement Campaign (NSNSC), looks into the efforts made by Nepalbhasa communities to implement the MTB-M LE policy by adopting a practical strategy of three language formula to facilitate students’ learning through mother tongue, official language Nepali and international language English, thus, addressing the demands of socially and culturally diverse parents as well. This study has been carried out with ethnographic methods including participant observation, interviews, electronic recording, taking notes while recording and also using local language as suggested by Duranti (2000, pp.99-118 ). The data have shown that as a new experiment the three language formula has been a success story and a raiser of hope for future endeavors to implement MTB-MLE policy in the context of Nepal’s linguistic diversity. What is still required is to chart a ‘plan of action’ supported by ‘political will’ of the government (central as well as local) and an active support of respective linguistic communities.

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