Gérard Huet (Inria Paris-Rocquencourt) will give a lecture entitled "Computational Linguistics for Sanskrit: Presentation of the Sanskrit Heritage Platform" at the EFEO Center on Saturday 17th of September at 5 p.m.
Abstract: We present the current status of a computerized platform for processing Sanskrit text. It consists in a structured lexical database, the Sanskrit Heritage Dictionary (currently 21000 entries, of which 580 verbal roots, generating ~8 lakh forms), and a set of interconnected Web services allowing kridanta generation, inflected forms generation, lemmatization, sandhiviccheda, morphological tagging, and shallow parsing.
The talk will demonstrate the system on characteristic examples, will discuss the software architecture and its limitations, and will survey ongoing cooperative work with the Sanskrit Studies Department of the University of Hyderabad and the Sanskrit Library effort.

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