VAIDYA BHAGWAN DASH, Tibetan medicine with special reference to Yoga Sataka, Dharamsala, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1976, 8vo, pp. xvi, 390, £6.00. Reviewed by Marianne Winder, M. A., A. LA., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road. London NW! 2BP. Here is a book by a man who is a physician, a scholar, and active in public life, three qualities not often comb...

The last decade has seen rigorous activities in the field of Sanskrit computational linguistics pertaining to word level and sentence level analysis. In this paper we point out the need of special treatment for Sanskrit at discourse level owing to specific trends in Sanskrit in the production of its literature ranging over two millennia. We present a tagset for inter-sentential analysis followe...

We are experimenting to examine how AnglaBharati system designed to translate English to Indian languages could be adapted for translation to Sanskrit. The main contribution of our work is demonstration of machine translation of English to Sanskrit for simple sentences based on PLIL generated by AnglaBharati and Ashtadhyayi rules. Presently our translation system caters to affirmative, negative...

A hybridised form of direct and rule-based language processing is used in this paper to present a Machine translation system from Sanskrit Hindi. The divergence between Hindi also discussed paper, along with proposition for how handle it. Sanskrit-Hindi bilingual dictionaries, Grammatical corpus analyses rule base, have all been the projected system. system's ability access data various vocabul...

Splitting is a conventional process in most of Indian languages according to their grammar rules. It is called ‘pada vicchEdanam’ (a Sanskrit term for word splitting) and is widely used by most of the Indian languages. Splitting plays a key role in Machine Translation (MT) particularly when the source language (SL) is an Indian language. Though this splitting may not succeed completely in extra...

Tibetan is a monosyllabic language for which computerized language tools are largely lacking. We describe the development of a syllable stemmer for Tibetan. The stemmer is based on a set of rules that strive to identify the vowel, the core letter of the syllable, and then the other parts. We demonstrate the value of the stemmer with two applications: determining stem similarity of two syllables...