In this paper we present an experiment on the use of the hierarchical Indic Languages POS Tagset (IL-POSTS) (Baskaran et al 2008 a&b) , developed by Microsoft Research India (MSRI) for tagging Indian languages, for annotating Sanskrit corpus. Sanskrit is a language with richer morphology and relatively free word-order. The authors have included and excluded certain tags according to the require...

Wordnets (WN) are accepted worldwide as useful lexical tools for Natural Language Processing (NLP) . Projects for building WNs of different languages of the world are going for quite some time. The scenario for Indian Languages is also encouraging. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) has successfully created WNs for Hindi and Marathi.There have been more than 100,000 hits of the sites ...

The paper introduces the new research project ‘Aṣṭādhyāyī 2.0’ that aims at developing a digital edition of the Aṣṭādhyāyī Pāṇini’s nearly 2,500 years old grammar of Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language. For modern linguists this grammar is interesting for two reasons. First, its Western (re-)discovery in the 19th century had an enormous influence on contemporary linguistics. For example, the ...

Indian Languages are Indo-Aryan being influenced by Sanskrit or Dravidian being influenced by Tamil. Dravidian Languages have the influence of Sanskrit also. All Indian Languages have the influence of Pali language for which the graphemes are being influenced Brahmi. All the Indian languages are phonetic in nature. Every Indian language has its distinctive phone sets. North Indian languages are...

The rendering of Sanskrit poetry from text to speech is a problem that has not been solved before. One reason may be the complications in the language itself. We present unique algorithms based on extensive empirical analysis, to synthesize speech from a given text input of Sanskrit verses. Using a prerecorded audio units database which is itself tremendously reduced in size compared to the col...

The area of Artificial Intelligence is very useful in providing people with a machine, which understands diverse languages spoken by the common man. It presents the user with an interface, with which he feels more comfortable. Since, there are many different languages spoken in this world, we are constantly in need for translators to enable people speaking different languages to share ideas and...

The development of a machine translation system needs that we identify the patterns of divergence between two languages. Though a number of MT developers have given attention to this problem, it is difficult to derive general strategies which can be used for any language pair. Therefore, further exploration is always needed to identify different sources of translation divergence in different pa...