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प्रियाणि मित्राणि,

१. श्रीमतः चेतनस्य लिखितं code इदानीं अस्मत्-code-base मध्ये संयुक्तं, च यथोचितं उपयोगाय सिद्धं अस्ति। तस्मै हार्दिकं कार्तज्ञ्यं अर्पयामः।

२. प्रायः कदाचित् अस्मत्-wiktionary bot सृजनं उपक्रीयते, तदर्थं sourceforge.net/projects/jwbf/ उपयोगः क्रीयते। सूचनासु सत्सु सूचयन्तु!

३. श्रीमत्याः अम्बायाः उपकरणानां पेटिकायां अनेकानां योगदानानां स्मारकं एतत् आसीत्, दृष्ट्वा धन्यकृतः भवद्भ्यः अपि दर्शयन्नस्मि; अस्माभिरपि अवश्येन योगदानं समर्पितव्यं -

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History:
We acknowledge the help of ASR Melkote who had given their resources of Morphological Analyser in 2002. This formed a starting point for us.

Mr. Jain worked on the Sanskrit morphological analyser from 2002-2003 towards his M.Tech. thesis at IIIT-H.

Ms. Sheeba worked as a part of work on her Ph.D. thesis contributed towards the development of morphological analyser from 2004-2006. Her major contribution was for subantas and kridantas.

Mr. Anil Gupta contributed for the development of tinganta analyser between 2006-2007, especially with the Dhaturatnakar entries.

Later from 2004-2006, various students at the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetham Tirupati contributed to the development of Sandhi package. Contribution of Ms. Sivaja Nair, Pankaj Vyasa and Ms. Sushama Vempati deserve special mention.

University of Hyderabad later supported further development under the University of Potential Excellence scheme from 2006-2007.

During 2006-2008 Pawan Goyal, IIT Kanpur worked with Amba Kulkarni towards the development of Ashtadhyayi simulator.

Though Amba Kulkarni worked on various modules at her own pace, the project got a boost when the Technology Development for Indian Languages(TDIL)  division of Ministry of Information and Communication Technology supported the activity in the form of a Consortium of 7 Institutes.

The Principal Investigators at the 7 institutes are:
Amba Kulkarni, Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad (Consortium Leader)
Girish Nath Jha, Special Center for Sanskrit, JNU, Delhi
Shrinivas Varkhedi, Director, Sanskrit Academy, Hyderabad
Dipti Mishra Sharma, IIIT-H, Hyderabad
S. S. Murty, RSVP, Tirupati
Tirumala Kulkarni, PPVP, Bangalore
Veeranarayan Pandurangi, JRRSU, Jaipur

Under this project on 'Development of Sanskrit Computational tools and Sanskrit-Hindi Machine Translation system', following tools have been developed:

a) Morph analyser
b) Morph generator
c) Sandhi
d) Sandhi Splitter
e) Sanskrit-Hindi Machine Translation system (Sampark and Anusaaraka models)
f) Compound Processor

All these modules were developed at the Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad.

Various consortium members have contributed by developing annotated tests for building these modules. In addition JNU developed a POS tagger and IIIT-H deveoped a POS tagger and a parser, which are not part of this distribution.

Following persons had major contribution in the development of the tools:
a) Dr. Sheeba
b) Dr. Devanand Shukl
c) Mr. Anil Gupta
d) Ms. Bhavani
e) Ms. Gauri
f) Ms. Kiranmayi
g) Mr. Karunakar

In addition Converters and Transliteration modules for converting/transliterating from one scheme to the other are developed. Following schemes have been addressed.
a) Unicode Devanagari (UTF-8)
b) WX
c) Velthuis
d) Itrans
e) SLP
f) Kyoto Harvard

Ms. Sivaja Nair worked on her Ph.D. thesis on the Amarakosha from 2007-2011. The package she developed in the process is also available for distribution.

Mr. Anil Kumar developed the Compound processor as a part of his PhD thesis from 2008-.

Since 2008 Amba Kulkarni is also collaborating with Gerard Huet, INRIA. As a result of this collaboration, an inter-communication between the Sanskrit Heritage tools and the Anusaaraka tools has been possible.

Finally I would like to acknowledge Prof. K V Ramkrishnamacharyulu for his guidance throughout the development of these tools.

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