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The paper describes a Sanskrit morphological analyzer that identifies and analyzes inflected noun-forms and verb-forms in any given sandhi-free text. The system which has been developed as java servlet RDBMS can be tested at http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in (Language Processing Tools > Sanskrit Tinanta Analyzer/Subanta Analyzer) with Sanskrit data in Unicode text. Subsequently, the separate systems of subanta and tiṅanta will be combined into a single system of sentence analysis with karaka interpretation. Currently, the system checks and labels each word as three basic POS categories - subanta, tiṅanta, and avyaya. Thereafter, each subanta is sent for subanta processing based on an example database and a rule database. The verbs are examined based on a database of verb roots and forms as well by reverse morphology based on Paninian techniques. Future enhancements include plugging in the amarakośa (http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/amara) and other noun lexicons with the subanta system. The tiṅanta will be enhanced by the kṛdanta analysis module being developed separately.
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Jha, G.N. et al. (2009). Inflectional Morphology Analyzer for Sanskrit. 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_8
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