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भाषा दिवसाच्या सर्वाना शुभेच्छा. </b></span></font><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="gmail_quote"><b>The information on the occasion of Marathi Bhasha din </b>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marathi Bhasha Divasa Greetings. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On this occasion, we would like to share a few things with
you. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The website <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.saakava.com">www.saakava.com</a> <span> </span>was launched on May 1, 2010- the Golden Jubilee
of Maharashtra. The website gives translation of an English sentence into
Marathi. The Machine Translation software Saakava carries out this translation.
The software has been somewhat primitive( a pre-beta version) so far. We have
been improvising it on a regular basis and will continue to do so. A number of
suggestions from users and sentences tried by the visitors of the website were
taken into account while making such changes. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">A project of this type dealing with
languages belonging to different families of languages is very time-consuming
and it involves a sizeable financial investment also. It could be possibly the
first of its type – at least the first which is so user-friendly. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">At present, it deals with nearly
two lakh words/word groups/phrases. It handles types of sentences which a
seventh standard student ( from a Marathi medium school) is expected to know.
The process of incorporating more advanced types of sentences is in progress. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Some experts in the translation
studies and profession encouraged us by writing e-mails of appreciation. There
were some useful suggestions also. A tenth standard student form Mumbai, whose mother
tongue is not Marathi, wrote that Saakava turned out to be useful while
studying Marathi. A number of individuals helped either directly or indirectly.
Many thanks to all of them. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The version which is being
presented on the occasion of Marathi Bhasha Divasa has a special feature. It
gives Marathi words ( paaribhashik words) for technical words from various
subjects. Our website gives more details. Of course, some other sites also give
such lists. Work on branches such as Grammar, Ecology and Medicine has been
undertaken. It will be very convenient to have on-line availability of such
words. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>You can participate in this project in a variety of ways : </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Please visit the project today. Also, keep on visiting
frequently. Since the software is being updated regularly, some of the mistakes
that you find may have been corrected later on. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Sentences that you input are very useful to us. Sentences
of various types help us in improving the software. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. If you find that a particular type of sentence pattern is
always incorrect, please write to us at <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Saakava.Suggestion@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Saakava.Suggestion@gmail.com">Saakava.Suggestion@gmail.com</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Please forward this email to your friends and those who
could be interested in English-Marathi translation. </p><p class="MsoNormal">5. Please try to promote
Saakava via forums related to translation, machine translation, social
networking sites like orkut/facebook and blogs. This will allow Saakava to
reach a large number of individuals. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks and best regards. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Saakava group.</p>
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