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Development
Activities | Current
Projects
The Indian
Heritage Group at C-DAC, Bangalore, is engaged in activities
related to development of software for Vedic use on
the computer since June 1990. The accomplishments of this
Group include:
- Evolving the Sanskrit and Vedic character encoding standards for computers as Annex-G
in ISCII [IS 13194:1991]
- Development of DESIKA: A Natural language Understanding (NLU) system for Sanskrit.
[1990 – 1994]
A UNDP funded project through the Department of
Electronics (DoE) under the knowledge-based computer
system (KBCS), DESIKA, a preliminary NLU System
for Sanskrit, has been developed and is in use in
Sanskrit Depts. of Universities and Institutions.
The first Sanskrit Parser (Paninian grammar based
analysis program) Desika includes Vedic processing
and shabda-bodha as well. Essentially, it generates
and analyses Sanskrit Words / Sentences with the
help pf Paninian grammar rules, for valid wordforms.
Paraphrasing an input sentence, changing the voice,
euphonic combinations and accented input (Vedic)
Processing are the other salient features of this
system. A Rulebase trace is also provided.
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Computational Rendering of
Panini’s Grammar [1994 – 1998]
Funded by the ertswhile Dept. of Electronics (DoE),
Department of Information Technology (DIT) [1998-
2000] as part of the Technology Development for
Indian Languages (TDIL), the Panini's Vyakarana,
comprising of - Linganusasana, Sutrapatha, Dhatupatha,
Ganapatha, Siksha, various Siksha-s like Bharadvaja
Siksha (Savyakhya) , Lakshana Grantha-s and Pratisakhya-s.
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Computational Database of RgVeda
Samhita [1995 – 1996]
Initiated by Prof. R.L. Kashyap,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Purdue
(U.S.A).
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Development of Vedic Fonts
for ISCII [1996]
This included further development
on Padapatha, analysis, translation and a retrieval
/ index application called RgVeda Ratnakara.
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Funded by Department of Information Technology
(DIT), Government of India, the Sanskrit Authoring
System incorporates a variety of Natural Language
interface tools such as an Editor, creation of multilingual
documents with transliteration between Indian languages
and Roman, utilities for sorting, searching, indexing,
concordance, various analyses like morphological,
syntactic and semantic, lexical update, grammar
help and hyperlinks to a variety of rulebases. Grantha
Vedic fonts were developed.
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Mahabharatha Database Project,
funded by Dept. of Culture (DoC). [2000-2001]
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SANSK-NET project funded by Ministry of Human Resource and Development
(MHRD) through RSVP, Tirupati [2000-2001]
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Digital Library project – Funded by Department of Information Technology (DIT) [2001-Onwards]
Vedic Content Creation from Original
treatises of Ancient Indian Scientific Heritage
CURRENT
PROJECTS:
- Vedic Content Creation from Original
treatises of Ancient Indian Scientific Heritage (Digital
Library).
- Sansk-Net Project
- Content creation as a participant
centre Sansk-Net
- Software Development as Co-ordinator
- Integration and Application
development as Co-ordinator
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