SanskritTagger is a stochastic tagger for unpreprocessed Sanskrit text. The tagger tokenises text with a Markov model and performs part-of-speech tagging with a Hidden Markov model. Parameters for these processes are estimated from a manually annotated corpus of currently about 1.500.000 words. The article sketches the tagging process, reports the results of tagging a few short passages of Sans...

This is the first study investigating nature of trilingual parallel language activation in Nepal-English-Sanskrit triad. Twenty-four participants have been divided into groups 8 based on dominance three use to understand groups. Stimuli consisted audio-visual bimodal nature. An emerging novel technology Mouse Tracker that can continuous unfolding cognitive processing has used design experiment ...

Commonly used vocabulary in Indian language documents found on the web contain a number of words that have Sanskrit, Persian or English origin. However, such words may be written in different scripts with slight variations in spelling and morphology. In this paper we explore approximate string matching techniques to exploit this situation of relatively large number of cognates among Indian lang...

Navya-Nyāya is an early modern Indian system of philosophical analysis. It was founded by Udayana (c. 1050 CE), developed by Gaṅgeśa (c. 1200 CE), and reached its peak in the works of authors including Raghunātha (c. 1500 CE), Jagad̄ı́sa (c. 1600 CE) and Gadādhara (c. 1650 CE). The school is notable for its development of a technical language, by means of which it clarified many philosophical que...

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...

Automatic text classification is an area that has received a great deal of attention in recent research due to current growth of Internet, which has resulted in huge amount of information that has become a challenge to access efficiently. This paper describes an experimental result on how to create an automatic efficient and effective tool that is able to classify large documents quickly. Our m...

Ascertaining the botanical identities of many of the plants described in Sanskrit literature is a difficult task. However, the problem can be solved by basing the studies on an authentic and ancient Sanskrit work. Thus the Garuda Purana was studied and the botanical identities of the numerous plants listed in chapter 202 of the Purvabhaga were ascertained.