Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections: Methods and Implementation is the result of Research and Development (R&D) at the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) level at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The title of the dissertation was “Machine Recognition and Morphological Analysis of Subanta-Padas.” The work, which is based on the reverse engineering implementation of Panini’s Sanskrit Grammar, brings together new and original studies in the area of computational linguistics, language technology and natural language processing with reference to parsing Sanskrit nominal inflections. On the surface level, Panini has defined rules in a forward looking generative fashion which makes reverse analysis necessary for parsing. Since parsing inflections is the first basic step towards complete analysis, the present work has relevance for any larger system that may evolve in future.
Sanskrit is an intriguing language that has seen ups and downs over many centuries. Its unique nature is rooted in the etymological and logical bases. Over the last few years, I am following the efforts and the struggle for the revival of this beautiful language. This book is a compilation of select articles from my blog site: bhashabodha.blogspot.com
This book is for those seekers who want to make a revisit to the 1984 statement: Sanskrit is best suited language for computer programming and connects to 21st century initiatives of A.I for Human Languages.The presentation plan used is over-view of 'language-technology relations, initiatives status and technology-trends emerging which impact human language future in digital space and devices. Three specific goals are explored to understand the legacy inheritance and ground reality for further planning to achieve the goals: 1. Identify the best technology options to facilitate research and outreach of Sanskrit to 2040- language user communities' without 5D- damages? (5D's: are distortions, digestion, dilution, degeneration, disconnection). 2. Revisit Panini studies to identify pathways to align Techno-linguistic models to get aligned to Brahmi Human language models, facilitating design and deployment of methods and systems delivering A.I for Non-English languages, Interactive Voice Interfaces for Brahmi language families, starting with Sanskrit? 3. What does it mean and take, to see Sanskrit as a programming language using brahmi native linguistics appropriate phonetics, semantics and morphology as provided in native grammars, lexicons documents and usage? Making Sanskrit stand on equal footing with other programming languages using Roman alphabet character set and romanization model? This book is a research- resource material Sanskrit-Computer: Language Appropriate Technology Course and Program offered by the author/s. Guiding thought for preparing this book is that Paninian Grammar rules and language model has the potential to deliver above goals. How to measure Progress by direction and benefit? What barriers to overcome? Language technology (L.T, currently anchored to representation of human languages through Romanization needs to evolve as Language Appropriate Technology (L.A.T) to serve non English like languages of nations by native natural scripts and user voices. De-Romanization and De-Anglicization of technology is the true beginning of Natural Language Processing in Language-Technology.Following are the visioned economic, social and national benefits of upgrade from L.T to LAT. (a)Skilled Job Creation in Language-Technology domain: Expand IT and .A.I. application markets elevated from the current framework of Romanization anchored Anglicized technology and address the needs of greater markets of Natural National Non-English like languages-market. (b) Technology that suits and serves the national language, languages of nation eliminates the language override and endangerment threats. (c) Natural language appropriate technology markets are fifty times bigger, diverse, stable and long lasting with cultural continuum in nations. More advanced technology is needed to deliver the solutions for this new global market. Language Appropriate Technology (LAT) is an inclusive and comprehensive evolution of the core concepts in 'Language-Technology (LT)' and Natural Language Processing (NLP).It is an effort to De-Romanize Human Language representation in Technology and imbalances triggered due to Anglicized Technology. It is an effort to eliminate the fears expressed as colonized web, digital death of language, mono-lingual web, Machines overtake, English override on non-English- non roman script languages. It is an effort to empower all human languages with equal rights and opportunities to enjoy the benefits of technology, using their native script, voices and grammars, without a dependency on Romanized representation in Anglicized technology frame. It is a perceived path way to eliminate the threat of techno-linguistic digestion of human languages to technology frame work. Natural language appropriate technology markets are fifty times bigger, diverse, stable and long lasting with cultural continuum in nations. More advanced technology is needed to deliver the solutions for this new global market.
The Urban Yogi An Autobiography and Self-Help Book in Ayurveda, Extensive Food List, and Formula for Self-Realization By: Noel Carroll Gilbert I am writing this book because I have been knocking on God’s door a lot and I believe he is about ready to open it for me… I have been slipping in and out of realization and thought I should at least record it for those people who need the breadcrumbs to follow and who need inspirational stories to help them move further down their spiritual path… The real reason I am writing this book is that God told me to… We will get into this! …His divine orchestration… His will, verses your will… How to recognize his will… Yes! …The reason I am writing this book is because: what is true in God anywhere, is true in God everywhere… You cannot go there by hoarding the knowledge to the path… What goes in must come out… It is a law of nature, like gravity… Or if you do not use it, you lose it… or, on the other hand, if you abuse it, you lose it. May God’s Love for you, always be upper most on your mind and heart. With all my love, Namasta.
This volume presents selected papers from KBCS '89, which is the second in a series of annual conferences hosted by the Knowledge Based Computer Systems Project funded by the Government of India with United Nations assistance. The papers are grouped into sections including: - AI applications - computer architecture and parallel processing - expert systems - intelligent tutoring systems - knowledge representation - logic programming - natural language understanding - pattern recognition - reasoning - search - activities at the KBCS Nodal Centres.
This volume critically examines the role of science in the humanities and social sciences. It studies how cultures and societies in South Asia and Europe underwent a transformation with the adoption or adaptation of scientific methods, turning ancient cultural processes and phenomena into an enhanced scientific structure. The chapters in this book Discuss the development of science as a method in modern and historical contexts and the differences between modern science, scientification and pseudoscience. Study the interactions between bodies of knowledge such as Sanskrit and computer science; mathematics and Vedic mathematics; science and philosophy. Drawing on textual material, extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, Indology, history, linguistics, history and philosophy of science and social science.
The Sanskrit Language presents a systematic and comprehensive historical account of the developments in phonology and morphology. This is the only book in English which treats the structure of the Sanskrit language in its relation to the other Indo-European languages and throws light on the significance of the discovery of Sanskrit. It is this discovery that contributed to the study of the comparative philology of the Indo-European languages and eventually the whole science of modern linguistics. Besides drawing on the works of Brugmann and Wackernagel, Professor Burrow incorporates in this book material from Hittite and taking into account various verbal constructions as found in Hittite, he relates the perfect form of Sanskrit to it. The profound influence that the Dravidian languages had on the structure of the Sanskrit language has also been presented lucidly and with a balanced perspective. In a nutshell, the present work can be called, without exaggeration, a pioneering endeavour in the field of linguistics and Indology.
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First and Second International Symposia on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, held in Rocquencourt, France, in October 2007 and in Providence, RI, USA, in May 2008 respectively. The 11 revised full papers of the first and the 12 revised papers of the second symposium presented with an introduction and a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from the lectures given at both events. The papers address several topics such as the structure of the Paninian grammatical system, computational linguistics, lexicography, lexical databases, formal description of sanskrit grammar, phonology and morphology, machine translation, philology, and OCR.
