Kindly find attached the announcement of launch of a Sanskrit verb form generator (vidyut-prakriya) from Mr. Arun Prasad, which may be of interest to some of you.
नमो विद्वद्भ्यः --
vidyut-prakriya generates Sanskrit words by applying Paninian rules step-by-step. Our long-term goal is for the program to generate all valid Paninian words.
Summary
vidyut-prakriya is heavily indebted to the
SanskritVerb generator from Dr. Dhaval Patel, I.A.S and Dr. Shivakumari Katuri, and we are grateful to the authors for their encouragement in this project.
If you are familiar with SanskritVerb, vidyut-prakriya offers the following improvements:
- It adds many more forms (जुगुप्सते etc, अतत etc, -आम्बभूव etc.)
- It fixes various small bugs.
- Its prakriyas generally have more detail, especially for it-Agama rules.
- It can run in a web browser without an internet connection.
- It is much faster. On my laptop, vidyut-prakriya can generate all kartari-tinantas in about 4 seconds. This speed is especially useful for testing and for natural language processing tools.
- It has partial support for sanAdi forms. These have not been tested very much, so please use with caution.
Notes:
We are sharing our system publicly so that we can collect feedback and better discover bugs. Please share it widely so that we can collect more feedback.
- We are eager to partner with scholars and experts to better test our system. If you are interested in working with us more closely, please contact us at
https://ambuda.org/contact.
- We have partial support for subantas and krdantas, but these are not available in the demo yet.
- Testing was done by comparing our program to the output of SanskritVerb. Most differences have been accounted for and are (we believe) in vidyut-prakriya's favor, but a few small errors likely remain.
Regards,
Arun Prasad
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