Cambridge University scientist Rishi Rajpopath has found a solution to an age-old Sanskrit grammar puzzle that makes it possible for computers to learn Sanskrit. It has been reported Warning!.
about 500 BC. to. The ancient Indian linguist Panini created a set of four thousand rules describing the phonetics, morphology and syntax of Sanskrit. At the same time, Panini used concepts familiar to us, such as suffixes. But there was a problem: often two or more rules could be applied at the same time.
Panini himself developed a meta-rule that lets you choose between two rules, but over the past 2500 years scientists have been unable to decipher it. Traditionally, scholars have interpreted it this way: in case of a conflict between two rules of equal strength, the subsequent rule in the grammatical sequential order wins. The author of the new meta-rule showed that Panini is actually picking the rule that applies to the right-hand side of the word.
Thanks to the scientist’s discovery, there is now a clear algorithm that allows you to create grammatically correct words in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-European language originating from South Asia. Although Sanskrit is spoken by only about 25,000 people in India today, Sanskrit has for centuries been and remains India’s greatest medium of science, philosophy and poetry.
Source: Gazeta
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