A PROJECT WORK

ON
ENGLISH TO BENGALI AND BODO
ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY

Submitted to
ASSAM UNIVERSITY
In partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in the Department
of Computer Science, Assam University, Silchar

By

Nurulla Mansur Barbhuiya

Roll-No.:101812-02220202
Reg. No.:04-120029494 of 2012-13
Dated 26-05-2018

Under the guidance of

Prof. Bipul Syam Purkayastha
Department of Computer Science
Assam University, Silchar

Department of Computer Science

School of Physical Science
Assam University, Silchar

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 DECLARATION

I, Nurulla Mansur Barbhuiya, student of 10th semester, Department of

Computer Science, Assam University, Silchar bearing Roll. 101812 No.

02220202 do hereby declare that I have duly worked on my term paper entitled

“English to Bengali and Bodo Electronic Dictionary” under the guidance of

Prof. Bipul Syam Purkayastha, Department of Computer Science, Assam

University, Silchar. This work is submitted in the partial fulfilment of the

requirements for the award of degree of Master of Science in Computer Science

during the period of Jan 2018 to May 2017.

This work has not been submitted to any other university or institution for

the award of any degree or diploma.

Place: Assam University, Silchar

Date: (Nurulla Mansur Barbhuiya

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 Certificate
This is to certify that Nurulla Mansur Barbhuiya, student of 10th
semester, Department of Computer Science, Assam University,
Silchar bearing Roll. 101812 No. 02220202 has done her project
entitled “English to Bengali and Bodo Electronic Dictionary” under
my guidance in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of
the degree in Master of Science in Computer Science during the
period of Jan 2018 to May 2018.

This project report is the work of Nurulla Mansur Barbhuiya, and

has not been submitted to any other university or institution for any
award of degree.

Place: (Prof. Bipul Syam Purkayastha)

Date: Department of Computer Science
Assam University, Silchar
Pin – 788011

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 Certificate
This is to certify that Nurulla Mansur Barbhuiya, student of 10th
semester, Department of Computer Science, Assam University, Silchar
bearing Roll. 101812 No. 02220202 has done her project work entitled
“English to Bengali and Bodo Electronic Dictionary” under the guidance
of Prof. Bipul Syam Purkayastha, Professor, Department of Computer
Science, Assam University, Silchar in partial fulfilment of the requirement
for the award of the degree in Master of Science in Computer Science
during the period of Jan 2018 to May 2018.

This paper report is the work of Nurulla Mansur Barbhuiya any other
university or institution for any award of degree.

Date: PROF. K. HEMACHANDRAN

Place: Assam University, Silchar Head of Department
Department of Computer Science
Assam University, Silchar

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I take the privilege to convey my gratitude to those persons whose co-operation,

suggestions and heartfelt support helped me to accomplish the project work
successfully.

I take immense pleasure to express my sincere thanks and profound gratitude to

my respected guide Prof. Bipul Syam Purkayastha Department of Computer
Science, Assam University, Silchar for his continuous support, patience,
motivation, enthusiasm, immense knowledge and providing timely support and
suitable suggestions despite of having a busy schedule.

I also express my sincere gratitude to all my teachers and friends who directly
or indirectly have helped me to complete this work.

Finally, I am grateful to my parents, brothers and sister for extending their

moral support, timely cooperation and encouragement, in carried out this project
work.

Place: Assam University, Silchar

(Nurulla Mansur Barbhuiya)

Date:

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters Page Number

1. Introduction………………………………………………………...1-13

1.1 Natural Language Processing

1.2 Dictionary
1.3 E-Dictionary
1.4 English Language
1.5 Bengali Language
1.6 Bodo Language
1.7 Motivation
1.8 Objectives

2. Literature Review…………………………………………………14-20

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Different Search Techniques
2.2.1 Index Based Search Technique
2.2.2 Binary Search Technique
2.2.3 Incremental Search Technique
2.2.4 Wildcard Search Technique
3. Software Requirement……………………………………………21-29

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Wamp server
3.3 PHP
3.4 HTML

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 3.5 JAVA SCRIPTS
3.6 Notepad++
3.7 MySQL

4. Implementation……………………………………………………30-35

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Sequential Search Technique
4.3 Architecture of SST
4.4 Algorithm of SST
4.5 Flowchart of the algorithm SST
4.6 Symbol used in Flowchart
4.7 Advantages and disadvantages

5. Results and Discussion…………………………………………...36-40

5.1 snapshot of Home page

5.2 snapshot of Entry form
5.3 snapshot of Search form

Appendix A: Conclusion and Future works……………………....41-42

Appendix B: References………….…………………………………..43

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 ABSTRACT

A language is one of the most important and effective modes of communication between
the people belonging to different communities and cultures. the language acts as a
bridge among us and helps in creating a bond among our cultures. Therefore, to learn
mother language as well as other new languages is very important for us. The dictionary
is one of the important tools that can be used for learning new languages. Electronic
dictionaries are very popular nowadays and many users can be accessed it
simultaneously on online. This project describes the development of English to Bengali
and Bodo Electronic Dictionary using Sequential Search Technique. The English to
Bengali and Bodo dictionary is a user friendly dictionary and user can easily look up the
meaning of word and other related information of the word like word Id, part of speech
(POS), synonyms and examples from English, Bengali and Bodo languages on offline.
This dictionary will be beneficial for Bodo people as well as other people living in India.

KEYWORDS: Electronic Dictionary, Languages, Natural Language Processing,

Sequential Search Technique (SST).

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