Baldev Ram Khandoliyan

Interlinked Lexical Resources for Sanskrit

The Case of ¿yurvedic Glossaries

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Produktbeschreibung

Developing interlinked lexical resources for Sanskrit can be used in various NLP applications like building WordNet, dictionaries, Sanskrit-Indian Language Machine Translation System (MTS) etc. The work explores an interconnected lexical resource system in the form of relational database and multi-dimensional knowledge based indexing system for ayurvedic herbs. This work is based on Vanausadhi Varga (VV), one of the chapters of Amarakosa (AK), the most popular Sanskrit lexicon ascribed to Amarasi ha (4th Century CE) and Bhavaprakasa Nighan u (BPN) of Bhavamisra (16th Century AD), one of the most accepted texts of ayurvedic nighan u (glossaries). This work, besides being an essential resource in NL system of Sanskrit, may also be useful for authentic and referential knowledge about Indian Ayurvedic heritage. The system can also be very useful for the researches of medical sciences by providing the facts from the huge texts. The book discusses the detailed study about structure andorganization of the VV of AK with BPN and explain the tradition of ayurvedic nighan u as well as Sanskrit lexicographical tradition in India. The system can be tested at http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 255g
• ISBN-13: 9783659243066
• ISBN-10: 365924306X
• Artikelnr.: 36714034

Autorenporträt

Baldev Ram Khandoliyan is a Ph.D. research scholarin Computational Linguistics and Sanskrit at the Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. The author has obtained his Post graduation from JNU, New Delhi, India, Master of Philosophy in Computational Sanskrit Linguistics from JNU, New Delhi, India.