Namaste

[Sachi R. Sachidananda]

Dear Sanskrit Programmers, 

I am neither a programmer nor a Sanskrit expert but merely a student learning under Dr. Sowmya and Samskrita Bharati. 

My vision is to have an app on my phone, computer, and the web, that translates English sentences of 12 words or less into Sanskrit with accuracy, elegance and easy pronunciation. My asking different domain experts has led me to joining this group. 

I have written my thoughts down here:

http://rsachi.blogspot.com/2020/11/sanskrit-auto-translator-sat.html

I request you to respond with your thoughts. 

We need different types of expertise and effort for this but I am keen enough to put my efforts to see this through. Let's map what it takes. The first step would be round up domain experts ie programmers who would. like to work on this. 

Take care and please respond. 

God bless

Sachi
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[Anunad Singh]

As the first step, it should be decided which translation technology we are indenting or we should intend for. From the brief description of your intent, it seems what you intend is 'translation memory' based translator. The latest trend is, as I understand, to go for statistical machine translation. 'Rule-based machine translation' is another prominent machine translation technology. The three routes are quite different and need quite different resources and capabilities.

-- anunAda

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[Sachi R. Sachidananda]

Thanks Anunad ji. 

I do not know these different technologies. I request your leadership in taking this forward. We need to put together a team, nay a force for this. 

My role is limited to being an enthusiastic user-propagator-promoter of the whole programme and application. 

My primary motivation comes from the versatility and usefulness of a tool like Google Translate in helping people use a new language to communicate easily without the demands of mastering the language first. 

I have seen in myself and others the biggest hesitation in communicating in Sanskrit comes from diffidence about "correctness". Once we have the SAT app easily available and widely used, people will start copy pasting SAT output and eventually forming their own Sanskrit lines. 

Now how would SAT translate the above sentence? Perhaps as this:

यथा यथा जनाः सत् app अपयुज्य विर्तालापं कुर्युः तथा तथा  संस्कृते स्वयं वक्तुं शक्ताः भवेयुः

Thank you 

Sachi
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[Lokesh Sharma]

I tried building a machine translator using RNN for Sanskrit to Hindi or English translation but the problem was there wasn't enough training data available back then. It requires data points (sentences) more than million to give a decent performance. Is such a dataset available now?

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[Sachi R. Sachidananda]

Sharma-ji

The steps I have in mind are:

1. Get volunteers and automatic media scanners to generate several hundred thousand English sentences. 

2. Get a panel of Sanskrit Experts to translate these sentences into correct, elegant, and easy to pronounce Sanskrit sentences. 

3. Build the software model (AI) to use this data base plus online dictionaries to Auto-generate Sanskrit translations from input English sentences by any user. 

Do you think you can add value to this project please? 

Thank you 

Sachi
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