Introduction Computational linguistics activities in India are being carried out at many institutions. The activities are centred around development of machine translation systems and lexical resources. 2. Machine Translation with some special notation). For example, adjectival participial phrases in the south Indian languages are mapped to relative clauses in Hindi with the ’*’ notation (Bharati, 2000). Similarly, existing words in the target language may be given wider or narrower meaning (Narayana, 1994). Anusaarakas are available for use as email servers (anusaaraka, URL). .