LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 6 : 5 May 2006

Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Associate Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF SANSKRIT LANGUAGE
Anirban Dash, Ph.D.

1. SANSKRIT FOR COMPUTER

In July 1987, Forbes magazine published news, which surprised even the Sanskrit pandits. It said that, “Sanskrit is the most convenient language for computer software programming.” It filled the hearts of all those who love and study Sanskrit with great joy and enthusiasm as it opened the doors to new fascinating world of Sanskrit studies.

Sanskrit is extremely rich, powerful and expressive language. Its potentialities are gradually being appreciated all over the world, and its application is being extended in different fields.

To mention a few, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad is working on a project called Natural Language Processing (NLP). The goal of NLP is to build computational methods of natural language for its analysis and generation. Similar work is going on at C-DAC, Bangalore. The project is called Natural Language Understanding (NLU).

2. COMPUTER FOR SANSKRIT

The association of Sanskrit with computer is constantly bridging the distance between the science of ancient world and the world of modern science.

Computer scientists and Sanskrit pandits all over the world are trying to use the computer technology in the field of Sanskrit studies. Many such efforts have already started in India. In this regard, Government of India has initiated two major projects:

  1. Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL)
  2. Sansk-net project. (site name: http://www.sansknet.org)

3. TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR INDIAN LANGUAGES (TDIL)

The Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) was devised by C-DAC, for using any Indian Language in Word Processing, Data Processing and a host of other applications across platforms like DOS, WINDOWS, UNIX, Mac, etc. This standard provides instant transliteration of texts among Indian languages and Roman script (with diacritics).

4. SANSK– NET PROJECT

The Project Sansk-net was proposed by the Indian Heritage Group (IHG) and Real-Time Systems Group (RTSG), and Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore, to be an initiative with Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidya Peetha (RSVP), Tirupati.

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Anirban Dash

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