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Recent Researches in...
Recent Researches in Sanskrit Computational Linguistics
Fifth International Symposium IIT Mumbai, India, January 2013 Proceedings by: Malhar Kulkarni , Chaitali DangarikarThis volume deals with the computational modelling of Panini’s grammar Astadhyayi together with supplementary texts, computational tools for Sanskrit language and their applications in the traditional Sanskrit concerns. It is an important initiative in the filed of Sanskrit computational linguistics as it records insightful current trends in the field.
₹630.00
ISBN: 9788124606988
Year Of Publication: 2013
Edition: 1st
Pages : xiv, 320p.
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 25
Weight: 800
This volume is the proceedings of the 5th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (ISCLS), held at IIT Bombay during 4-6 January 2013. These proceedings include fourteen selected and three invited papers. The selected papers deal with topics such as computational modelling of Panini’s grammar Ashtadhyayi together with its supplementary texts, computational tools for Sanskrit language and their applications in the traditional Sanskrit concerns. Accordingly, this book delves upon how clues from Ashtadhyayi help in identifying compound types; how Ashtadhyayis digital edition can be structured and implemented; the completeness analysis of a Sanskrit reader; graph-based analysis of parallel passages; some relation-specific issues in parsing Sanskrit texts, text normalizer for Sanskrit; extended Nyaya-Vaisheshika ontology; and a search engine for Sanskrit, among others.
The invited papers focus on lexicography, with special reference to Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles; some aspects of semantics in early India in understanding the meaning of words; and the computational database of Paninis grammar.
This collection, thus, is an important initiative in the filed of Sanskrit computational linguistics as it records insightful current trends in the field, making it a must buy for students, researchers, and all those interested in Sanskrit grammar.
Organization
Forword
1. Lexicography and Computerization
V.P. Bhatta
2. Meaning: Some Aspects of Semantics in Early India
Eivind Kahrs
3. An Analytic Database of the Ashtadhyayi
Peter M. Scharf
4. Clues from Ashtadhyayi for Compound Type Identification
Amba Kulkarni and Anil Kumar
5. Structure and Implementation of a Digital Edition of the Ashtadhyayi
Wiebke Petersen and Simone Soubusta
6. Comparison of Paniniya Dhatuvrittis
N Shailaja and Amba Kulkarni
7. Ashtadhyayyamupasamgri nishpadanayantraparikalpanam cha
Sridhar Subbanna and Shrinivasa Varakhedi
8. Completeness Analysis of a Sanskrit Reader
Pawan Goyal and Gérard Huet
9. Googling the Rishi
Oliver Hellwig
10. Parsing Sanskrit Texts: Some Relation-specific Issues
Amba Kulkarni and K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu
11. Text Normalizer for Sanskrit
Diwakar Mishra, Kalika Bali and Girish Nath Jha
12. Extended Nyaya-Vaisheshika Ontology as Applied to Amarakosha KnowledgeNet
Sivaja S. Nair, Shrinivasa Varakhedi and V. Sheeba
13. Gaveahika: A Search Engine for Sanskrit
Srigowri and Karunakar
14. Vedantasanskritam
Tirumal P. Kulkarni
15. Shleshalankarah Sanskritvishleshanasadhnanam Parikshnaya ekah Smahavyah
Veralakshmih
16. Variations in Manuscripts with Reference to the Indic Collections at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania
Anupama Ryali and Peter M. Scharf
17. Words in Metrical Milieux: A Computational Approach to a Neglected Field
Sven Sellmer
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