Redmond will collaborate with government-run center on multilingual issues Microsoft Research Lab India announced Friday that it plans to collaborate on research with the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a research and development organization run by the Indian government in Pune in western India.Microsoft Research plans to collaborate initially with C-DAC in the areas of multilingual Web searching, browsing and indexing; machine translation among Indian languages and English, and multilingual user interfaces such as optical character recognition (OCR), handwriting, and speech, Padmanabhan Anandan, managing director of Microsoft Research in India, told reporters in Bangalore on Friday.As India is a multilingual country, the country is the best place to research opportunities to make the computer multilingual, Anandan said. Microsoft Research and C-DAC are also in the process of identifying a framework to work together with other academic and scientific organizations in the country that are working in these research areas.The research lab in Bangalore is one of six research labs worldwide run by in Microsoft of Redmond, Washington.The lab already has ties with Indian universities and other academic institutions for some of its research projects. It is working with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay on a project on landslide detection that applies distributed, wireless sensors to monitor landslide prone areas. It is also working with the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Bangalore to investigate the impact of computing technology on agriculture. Software DevelopmentTechnology IndustryDatabasesSmall and Medium Business