Inflectional Morphology Analyzer for Sanskrit

The paper describes a Sanskrit morphological analyzer that identifies and analyzes inflected nounforms and verb-forms in any given sandhi-free text. The system which has been developed as java servlet RDBMS can be tested at http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in (Language Processing Tools > Sanskrit Tinanta Analyzer/Subanta Analyzer) with Sanskrit data as unicode text. Subsequently, the separate systems of subanta and ti anta will be combined into a single system of sentence analysis with karaka interpretation. Currently, the system checks and labels each word as three basic POS categories subanta, ti anta, and avyaya. Thereafter, each subanta is sent for subanta processing based on an example database and a rule database. The verbs are examined based on a database of verb roots and forms as well by reverse morphology based on Pā inian techniques. Future enhancements include plugging in the amarakosha (http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/amara) and other noun lexicons with the subanta system. The ti anta will be enhanced by the k danta analysis module being developed separately.