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CHENNAI, DEC. 9. The development of a language is possible only if it is backed by technology, Pon. Kothandaraman, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras, said here on Wednesday. Addressing a three-day conference of the Linguistics Research unit of the Tamil Department of the university, he said: "When we talk of Tamil, we are not belittling the importance of other languages, but the growth of any other language should not happen at the cost of Tamil." "If Tamil is to gain the same currency as English, we should start thinking in terms of developing language technology and language management studies," he said, adding the university was continuing to do silent work to promote Tamil and study of all oriental languages. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman, Madras Institute of Development Studies, said: "So far we have been involved with just computer technology and not language technology." He said that in the last seven years, work was underway in Tamil Nadu on computer applications in Tamil but the pace had slackened of late. " India could get global status not from missiles or a seat in the United Nations Security Council, but when people the world over respect "our culture, languages and the educational system," he said. Tamil software should go beyond web designing and animation into the technology-based inter-disciplinary knowledge, he added. N. Deivasundaram, director, Linguistics Research unit, said students of the department were working to develop word processing, optical character recognition, automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, text summarisation and search engines in Tamil.
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