We address some theoretical and practical issues relating to generation, processing, and management of Translation Corpus (TC) in Indian languages, which is developed in a consortium-mode project (ILCI-II) under the DeitY, Govt. of India. Issues are discussed here for the first time keeping in mind the ready application of TC in various domains of computational and applied linguistics. We first define what is a TC; describe the process of its construction; identify its features; exemplify the processes of text alignment in TC; discuss methods of text analysis; propose for restructuring of translational units; define the process of extraction of translational equivalents; propose for generating bilingual lexical database and TermBank from a structured TC; and finally identify areas where a TC and information extracted from it may be utilized. Since construction of TC in Indian languages is full of hurdles, we try to construct a roadmap with a focus on techniques and methodologies that may be applied for achieving the task. The issues are brought under focus to justify the work that generated TC for some Indian languages for future reference and application.
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