Naslov
Building a Sanskrit module in NooJ: Basic resources

Autori
Štefanec, Vanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of the NooJ 2010 International Conference and Workshop / Gavriilidou, Zoe ; Chatzipapa, Elina ; Papadopoulou, Lena ; Silberztein, Max - Komotini, 2011

Skup
NooJ 2010 International Conference and Workshop

Mjesto i datum
Komotiní, Grčka, 27.05.2010. - 29.05.2010

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
derivational morphology; inflectional morphology; NooJ; sandhi resolving; Sanskrit language

Sažetak
Even though the first attempts to use the computer in Sanskrit studies were made already in the 1970s, the interest in computational processing of Sanskrit language increased only ten years ago. By now, a large number of linguistic tools have been developed and made available online, as well as the large corpora of digitalized Sanskrit texts. As to our knowledge, this is the first attempt to build resources for Sanskrit in NooJ. Sanskrit was completely described in an amazing linguistic work Aṣṭādhyāyī composed by a famous Indian grammarian Pāṇini in 5th century B.C. Idiom described in his grammar, known as Classical Sanskrit, basically remained unchanged till the present due to the fact that authors were consistent in following the grammatical rules. Sanskrit is a very complex language. It has a very rich and extremely regular inflectional and derivational morphology, loose syntax with almost free word order, very productive formation of compounds and high level of word sense ambiguity. But from the computational point of view, the most complex phenomenon is the sandhi – euphonic changes occurring between morphemes in a word (internal sandhi) or between words in a compound or a sentence (external sandhi), making thus the identification of words very difficult. Although Sanskrit is a very important language for Indo-European comparative linguistics, this module should not be interesting only to linguists but to Sanskrit philologists as well. In the paper, we shall present some basic resources for Sanskrit module in NooJ, as well as give some remarks on few of the general problems in computational analysis of Sanskrit.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, Filologija

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