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Abstract
The rapid growth of Internet over the years has created an environment where enormous information is available in the electronic form. In this situation, where the Net has become rather indispensable in operational and experimental services, there is an urgent necessity to also allow non-English languages to be a part of it so that a large chunk of the population all over the world is benefited. In order to meet the needs and aspirations of the largely multilingual world population, extensions have been considered and efforts have been made, firstly to increase the content of multilingual scripts in the Internet, and secondly to internationalize the domain names themselves.
This paper endeavors to associate with the latter challenge. The sole objective of the Internationalization of Domain Names (IDN) is to obliterate the language barriers present in Internet today for the holistic progress of the masses. Three different models have been suggested for the issue of IDN to be tackled in the context of Indian scripts, by utilizing the extensive similarities between them, arising from their common origin i.e. from the Brahmi script. This parallelism and striking resemblance between the Indian languages has not been addressed seriously by the current attempts in internationalization. Novel schemes have been proposed for the conversion of multilingual scripts into DNS compatible strings with illustrative examples to elucidate the concepts. The paper also discusses the different issues that are intricately involved with IDN like homographs, homophones, misspellings & language resolution along with suggestive schemes to deal with these issues. It is believed that the ideas presented here will provide insights into related concerns and prove to be useful in guiding some of the designs for the implementation of IDN.
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Om Vikas
Om Vikas is the senior Director and Head of the Human Centered Computing Division in the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. Dr Vikas is also national coordinator of the mission mode program on Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) as well as the Digital Library of India initiative. His current research interests include Semantic Web, Parallel Computing, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Management and Informatics Curricula Development. He received BTech (EE), MTech (EE) and PhD from IIT, Kanpur. He has actively participated in the UNESCO Experts meetings on Multi-lingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace, Unicode Consortium and World Wide Web Consortium.
Dr Om Vikas is Senior member of IEEE, Fellow of Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), Fellow of Russian Academy of Informatization of Education, Senior Member of Computer Society of India, member of IEEE, Computer Society & IEEE, Engineering Management Society. He is also founder member of NLP Association and Lok Vigyan Parishad (People's Science Society).
Dr Vikas has vast experience of R&D, Teaching, Projects planning and International Cooperation. He has been active member of several regional and international conference program committees. He is still an active researcher.
For his outstanding contributions in the field of ICT for masses, he received several awards such as “Vishisht Padak”, “Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha”, “Atmaram” & “Vigyan Bhushan”, and recently “V ASVIK Industrial Research” Awards.