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MIT School of Vedic Sciences’ paper entitled “PAIAS: Paanini Ashtadhyayi Interpreter As a Service” has been accepted for publication in the upcoming World Sanskrit Conference in Vancouver, B.C Canada in July 2018. Authors: Sarada Susarla, Tilak Rao and Sai Susarla. Below is the abstract of the paper. Abstract It is widely believed that Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī is the most accurate grammar and word-generation scheme for a natural language there is. Several researchers attempted to validate this hypothesis by analyzing Aṣṭādhyāyī’s sūtra system from a computational / algorithmic angle. Many have attempted to emulate Aṣṭādhyāyī’s word generation scheme. However, prior work has succeeded in…

Abstract Indic heritage knowledge is embedded in millions of manuscripts at various stages of digitization and analysis. Though numerous powerful tools have been developed for linguistic analysis of Samskrit texts, employing them together on large document collections and building end-user applications is a challenge due to non-standard interfaces. This paper examines the architectural needs of scalable Indic document analytics, and presents our experience in building an actual system. Though it is a work in progress, we demonstrate how careful metadata design enabled us to rapidly develop useful applications via extensive reuse of state-of-the-art analysis tools. This paper offers an approach to standardization of linguistic analysis output,…