Use of Amarakosa and Hindi WordNet in Building a Network of Sanskrit Words"
Sivaja S Nair · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2008
Sanskrit has a rich source of lexical resources in the form of various kinds of dictionaries, and a thesaurus in the form of Amarakośa. Further the rich derivational morphology provides various kinds of relations between the derived words with their head words. With the advent of computational technology now it is possible to build tools that can help a serious reader of Sanskrit to navigate through various words passing through different linkages the word has, to get a holistic view of the meaning of a word, provided such a network exists. Present work is the first step in that direction. We have initiated the process of building a network of Sanskrit words with Amarakośa as the starting point. Since Sanskrit has rich inflectional morphology, we have also linked the web interface to Amarakośa with the inflectional morph-analyser. Further to provide various lexical and semantic relations between words, we explored the possibilities of using existing Hindi WordNet. It was found that the comparison of synsets of Hindi WordNet with that of Amarakośa is useful in improving the quality of Hindi WordNet on the one hand while enhancing the Sanskrit synsets quantitatively on the other hand.