[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit translations and parallel corpora

[Dominik Wujastyk]

It's not digital, but Edgerton's translation of the Gita (Harvard UP) is
pāda-for-pāda parallel to the Skt.
Dominik

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Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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University of Alberta, Canada
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South Asia at the U of A:

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On 8 November 2016 at 13:23, <hellwig7 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> for a project dealing with the Rigveda, we want to transfer syntactic
> structures and other linguistic information from parallel texts (=
> translations) in English and other modern languages to Sanskrit texts.
>
> So, for example, (1) we have a Sanskrit sentence X and its English
> translation Y, (2) we run a syntactic parser on the English sentence Y, (3)
> and transfer any detected structures to the Sanskrit sentence X. Sounds a
> bit exotic, but works surprisingly well for many languages.
>
> What we really need right now, are parallel digital corpora that provide
> an English (German, French) translation for each Sanskrit sentence (or at
> least for comparatively small text parts).
>
> Are you aware of any such **digital** resources? Text genre is not that
> important, but the older, the better. And they should preferably be massive
> in size.
>
> Best, Oliver
>
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> Oliver Hellwig, SFB 991, University of Düsseldorf
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