Sanskrit Computational Linguistics First and Second Internationa
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First and Second International Symposia on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, held in Rocquencourt, France, in October 2007 and in Providence, RI, USA, in May 2008 respect
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Gérard Huet Amba Kulkarni Peter Scharf (Eds.)
Sanskrit Computational Linguistics First and Second International Symposia Rocquencourt, France, October 29-31, 2007 Providence, RI, USA, May 15-17, 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Gérard Huet INRIA, Centre de Recherche Paris–Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau, BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX, France E-mail: [email protected] Amba Kulkarni University of Hyderabad Department of Sanskrit Studies Hyderabad 500046, India E-mail: [email protected] Peter Scharf Brown University Department of Classics PO Box 1856, Providence, RI 02912, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Foreword
Sanskrit is the primary culture-bearing language of India, with a continuous production of literature in all fields of human endeavor over the course of four millennia. Preceded by a strong oral tradition of knowledge transmission, records of written Sanskrit remain in the form of inscriptions dating back to the first century B.C.E. Extant manuscripts in Sanskrit number over 30 million, one hundred times those in Greek and Latin combined, constituting the largest cultural heritage that any civilization has produced prior to the invention of the printing press. Sanskrit works include extensive epics; subtle and intricate philosophical, mathematical, medical, legal, and scientific treatises; and imaginative and rich literary, poetic, and dramatic texts. While the Sanskrit language is of preeminent importance to the intellectual and cultural heritage of India, the importance of the intellectual and cultural heritage of India to the rest of the world during the past few millennia and in the present era can hardly be overestimated. The intelle