UNDL Foundation

UNDL Foundation website

The Universal Networking Language (UNL) is a machine language that is planned to serve as an intermediate language for machine translation between (and among) human languages. The project was initiated by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the UN University in 1996, and transferred to the UNDL Foundation after it was created in 2001. There is an international network of researchers developing software to translate to and from UNL. Country teams participating in the network include those from: Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Jordan, Russia, Italy, France, Spain and Brazil.

An article describing the effort to develop translators to and from Indian languages to UNL (supported by the Development Gateway Foundation) is:

"Multilingual Information Processing Through Universal Networking Language" by Pushpak Bhattacharyya.

See also his more popular PCQuest article : "Many Languages on the Net: What is Universal Networking Language and Multilingual Information Processing"