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Tagging Classical Sanskrit Compounds

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The paper sets out a prima facie case for the claim that the classification of Sanskrit compounds in Pāṇinian tradition can be retrieved from a very slight augmentation of the usual enriched context free rules.

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Gillon, B.S. (2008). Tagging Classical Sanskrit Compounds. In: Kulkarni, A., Huet, G. (eds) Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. ISCLS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93885-9_8

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