English to Bengali Machine Translation System Anubadok is now 0.2

After a gap of almost two years, I am happy to announce the second official release (version 0.2.0) of Anubadok a free (as in freedom) machine translation system for English to Bengali. Anubadok is written in Perl and it uses Penn Treebank annotation system for natural language processing. To run Anubadok 0.2.0, you need to [...]

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Reading Anandabazar, Bartaman in Linux, Mac and the Bigger Issue

[Update: Please see at the bottom of this post for a link to an improved version of Padma.] Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) and Bartaman Patrika (BP) are two (among big four) well-known Bengali news papers that are published from West Bengal, India. In the Internet era, their online versions are not just a matter of convenience [...]

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