Dear all,
a few Sanskrit related resources have been published today:
* The initial version of the Vedic Prose Corpus (VPC), built in
collaboration with K. Amano and S. Sellmer. Data available for download
from github; more here:
https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit/tree/master/corpus/VPC
Note that this resource contains English machine translations for all
texts (produced with Sebastian Nehrdich's MT model; files named
qqq-mt.txt in the translation subfolders), and human translations
aligned at sentence level for selected prose works.
* A slightly reformatted and lemmatized version of almost half of the
last GRETIL release:
https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit/tree/master/corpus/GRETIL
General background information about both resources is given in their
parent git directory ("Sanskrit text repository"):
https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit/tree/master/corpus
* Those working with Vedic prose might have a look at a new English
search interface built on top of the VPC:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/OliverHellwig/vpcsearch
This tool lets you enter an English sentence and then searches for
semantically related statements in Vedic prose - no Sanskrit, no
questions, nothing generative! See the "How to use this search tool"
section at the top of the tool.
* Finally, the lexicographic information from VPC and GRETIL has been
integrated into the DCS, almost doubling the size of its corpus. Right
now, the accessibility of this new data is somewhat limited. However,
when searching a word (Query page), results from VPC and GRETIL are
retrieved simultaneously and displayed under the header "Results for qqq
from unsupervised lemmatization". Clicking this link gives you access to
the relevant contexts and additional information about the occurrences.
While integrating this new data, I realized that the VPC search
interface is almost unusable from smartphones and tablets. I hope this
has been fixed to some extent, e.g. by introducing a new character
encoding system (aa for long a etc.; follow the link "Diacritics" on the
query page).
Best, Oliver
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Oliver Hellwig
Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution,
University of Zurich
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