[INDOLOGY] Introducing Dharmamitra.org, grammatical analyzers and machine translation for Sanskrit

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Sebastian,

     Hearty congratulations. I am not a computer expert, but I tried your
program with a few Sanskrit passages, and the English translations came out
just fine. This would certainly be a tool to get preliminary translations
of Sanskrit passages, which can then be checked for accuracy.
Congratulations once again.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 3:15 PM Sebastian Nehrdich via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear List members,
>
> This is to briefly introduce dharmamitra.org, a project lead by Kurt
> Keutzer and myself at BAIR, UC Berkeley, focussing on providing various
> GenAI-driven applications for classical Asian languages.
>
> We recently finished work on a set of neural Sanskrit grammatical analyzer
> tools together with Oliver Hellwig based on the annotations of the DCS.
> This annotation system is now part of the interactive interface at
> dharmamitra.org: When typing Sanskrit input into the translation box, a
> button with the label 'grammar' appears below the translation box and when
> clicking on this, the analyzed Sanskrit sentences become visible. This
> tools currently provides word segmentation, lemmatization and
> morphosyntactic tagging.
>
> We also have inference scripts for this system on this github repository
> for those of you who want to run the tools independently on their own
> machine (a GPU is advisable as it might otherwise be very slow):
> https://github.com/sebastian-nehrdich/sanskrit-analyzers
> Among these applications you will also find dependency parsing for Vedic
> Sanskrit, a function we do not yet support interactively on the website,
>
> A publication on the architecture, data etc. used for these tools is
> currently on the way.
>
> We also are open to providing API access for individuals and projects that
> would like to use these tools in their workflow. Feel free to contact us if
> you are interested!
>
> Dharmamitra.org also works on providing machine translation capabilities
> for Sanskrit into English and other languages. In case you are interested
> in this topic and would like to learn more, perhaps even collaborate or
> contribute in some way, feel free to reach out to us. We are more than
> happy to work together with people that want to explore the possibilities
> of this technology.
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Sebastian Nehrdich
>
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