21.1167, Diss: Comp Ling: Mishra: 'Sanskrit Karaka Analyzer for Machine...'

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Date: 08-Mar-2010
From: Sudhir Mishra < sudhirkumarmishra at gmail.com >
Subject: Sanskrit Karaka Analyzer for Machine Translation
 

	
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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:29:15
From: Sudhir Mishra [sudhirkumarmishra at gmail.com]
Subject: Sanskrit Karaka Analyzer for Machine Translation

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Institution: Jawaharlal Nehru University 
Program: Ph.D. in Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2007 

Author: Sudhir K. Mishra

Dissertation Title: Sanskrit Karaka Analyzer for Machine Translation 

Dissertation URL:  http://sites.google.com/site/mishrasudhirk/education

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):

Dissertation Abstract:

The present Research and development (R&D) describes the 
necessary research that went towards developing a karaka analyzer 
for laukika Sanskrit text.  The system called KAS (Karaka Analyzer for 
Sanskrit) is a partial implementation and is live at 
http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/karaka/analyzer.jsp in will be required for any 
processing of Sanskrit for larger Natural Language Processing (NLP) 
tools. The KAS takes as input unicode devanagari sandhi-samasa free 
text and returns karaka analyzed text as output. 

Developing a M(A)TS with Sanskrit as Source Language (SL) is very 
important and challenging. It is important because Sanskrit is the only 
language in India which can be truly considered a 'donor' language. 
The vast knowledge reserves in Sanskrit can be 'transferred' (read 
translated) to other Indian languages with the help of computer. Having 
Sanskrit as the SL is challenging because of the difficulty in parsing 
due to its synthetic nature in which a single word (sentence) can run up 
to 32 pages (Banabhatta's Kadambari). Therefore, processing system 
for Sanskrit is critical for any further work in this area for this language. 




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