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We are experimenting to examine how AnglaBharati system designed to translate English to Indian languages could be adapted for translation to Sanskrit. The main contribution of our work is demonstration of machine translation of English to Sanskrit for simple sentences based on PLIL generated by AnglaBharati and Aṣṭādhyāyī rules. Presently our translation system caters to affirmative, negative, interrogative, imperative, active and passive voice sentences. In our study, we have selected a set of nouns and verbs that represent different semantic categories besides a few adverbs and adjectives. We anticipate using a number of Sanskrit resources on Aṣṭādhyāyī and morphological synthesis [2].
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Goyal, P., Sinha, R.M.K. (2009). A Study towards Design of an English to Sanskrit Machine Translation System. In: Huet, G., Kulkarni, A., Scharf, P. (eds) Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. ISCLS ISCLS 2007 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00155-0_13
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