Beta Version Of Google TMT System For Tamang, Nepali, And English Translation Released

Kathmandu: The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Kathmandu University has released the Google Trilingual Machine Translation (TMT) system. The department’s Information and Language Processing Research Laboratory (ILPRL) has made the system available for testing and feedback at the community level.

This new translation system is currently available through the website https://tmt.ilprl.ku.edu.np. It currently has four models, which can translate in six different directions: Nepali–Tamang, Tamang–Nepali, English–Nepali, Nepali–English, English–Tamang, and Tamang–English. Based on one month of feedback, improvements, and suggestions from users, the best-performing model will be used as the final version.

This project is one of the 30 best research projects worldwide. It received the Google Academic Research Award 2025 under the Society-Centric AI category. Its main objectives are to increase access to information, ease communication, and preserve minority languages like Tamang.

According to the project’s principal investigator and head of the laboratory, Balkrishna Bal, the technical work is almost complete. The project has now entered the third phase, namely “community engagement.” After the final deployment, the community will be informed through training and workshops. In addition, the Corpus Annotation Tool will also be made public. This tool will help the Tamang community around the world contribute to translation and further refine the system.

Currently, the system has been trained using 23,000 parallel sentences across five areas: agriculture, health, education, culture and society, and general communication. The goal is to increase this to 100,000 parallel sentences in the future. Amrit Yonjan Tamang of the Tamang National Library and his translation team, along with the project’s co-principal investigator, Balram Prasai, are providing linguistic support for this work.

According to Prof. Bal, coordination will soon be carried out with Google to officially include the Tamang language in the Google Translate app. This is expected to significantly support the internationalization of the language. Prof. Prasai and Tamang linguist Amrit Yonjan Tamang are confident that the system will greatly assist both the government and citizens in e-governance and government service delivery.

 

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