Sanskrit Parser: Phase I: Nominal Forms Searching.

Grant Details

Amount: 2500.00

Project Start Date: 06/30/02

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Languages: Sanskrit

Project Level:
All - All Levels

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Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Peter Scharf (scharf@brown.edu)

Box 1856
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-2720

The current project is the first of five stages envisioned in creating a comprehensive Sanskrit parser. In stage one, the current pilot project will produce a program to generate all the inflected forms of any Sanskrit nominal stem. In stage two, the nominal-forms-inflection program will be used in a program to search for all the contextually produced phonological variations in a Sanskrit text file. Subsequent stages will complete the parser with verbal inflection and the handling of agglutinative structures. Housed in the Sanskrit Library website, the programs produced will be freely available to scholars worldwide immediately.