Introducing the work of Martin and the vedic society.

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

आत्मीयाः! नमस्करोमि।

Recently I had an opportunity to skype with Martin Gluckman of the vedicsociety.org (located in puducherri area). Several are the attempts his group is making towards improving the condition of sanskrit in the digital era:

• In attempting to bridge together the various "islands of work" that exist in the Sanskrit processing world, he has taken special attempts at getting the various parties to talk with each other (eg. Oliver Hellwig, Google OCR team, Google Translate team, Peter Scharf,  etc..)
  
• They have written several impressive tools for sanskrit learners. Please visit this presentation and see http://sanskritdictionary.com/frequency/

​Going forward, I have made/ make the following requests of Martin:

• Join sanskrit-programmers and participate/ announce your work here as well (I hear that he has only been announcing on indology mailing list, which is naturally out of bounds/ out of taste for the greater mass of hindu sanskrit lovers. )
• He has some very interesting ideas regarding crowd-sourcing text digitization/ proofreading ( like efforts of https://sites.google.com/site/sanskritcode/ocr/0-introduction and sanskrit wikisource ) and translation (he mentioned http://84000.co/ for Tibetan texts, which seems to be sort of similar in spirit to http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ we'd discussed earlier )
• Provide the ​data he has scraped from DCS (which Oliver anyway made available to him under the Creative Commons license) on github, so that others can use it.
  
• Furthermore, publish the processed data that lies behind http://sanskritdictionary.com/ (especially http://sanskritdictionary.com/frequency/ and such stuff which one cannot already find on  IITS Koeln here ) on github, so that it may be ingested into other projects such as  https://sites.google.com/site/sanskritcode/dictionaries for the benefit of a greater number of sanskrit (stardict/ goldendict) users.

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Looking forward to

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 collaborations​

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Vishvas /विश्वासः

[Sebastian Nehrdich]

Hello,

I think it would be a very great gift the have the data from the DCS published on github. Yes there are some different islands of research and getting them together to collaborate is a very noble and worthwhile thing to do.
I personally dream of an OSS Sanskrit POS-tagger, yet the road to get there is still very very long and any opportunity to mutually benefit from each other's effort is important.
With best wishes,

Sebastian