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Prof. Amba Kulkarni

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Sh. Pavankumar Satuluri - Project Co-Principal Investigator

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Sanskrit Word Order following the Steps of target language

Scheme Cycle RFP-01
Project Grants Rs. 10,00,000/-
Duration 2022 - 2024
Thematic Areas वाग्विभाग /Speech and Linguistics
Institution University of Hyderabad

Outcomes

Milestones from projects

Dṛṣṭi:

The Indian theories of Verbal Cognition, the tradition of commentaries, is relevant for Language Technologies

Jñāna:

The knowledge existing in the shaastras need to be polished and adapted for the technology. This task is not trivial. Rather it is as hard as mining gold.

Laukika-prayojana:

There is a dire need to provide an access to the trasure available in Sanskrit shastras. The use of scientific knowledge in the Indian linguistic sciences provides a scientific base for building the technology so that the knolwdge can be accessed by a common man.

Research Capabilities

Specialized focus areas guiding the Project

Objectives
  1. The main objective of this project is to develop computational modules that will change the word order in a given Sanskrit shloka so as to suit the native word order of the target language. Since Sanskrit word-order is free, and due to the re-ordering following the target language the sannidhi (the projectivity principle) is not violated, this module will act as an important component of the Sanskrit analyser in the Machine Translation system. We propose to develop this anvayakrama generator for the following 5 languages, in addition to the improvements in the existing HIndi module Marathi. Telugu, English, German and French.