Timeline for Is Sanskrit still relevant for NLP/AI?
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| Jan 29, 2020 at 8:37 | answer | added | Mathias Müller | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 9:13 | comment | added | user9947 | I think (not sure) the idea you propose is that Sanskrit is an unambiguous language and hence should be used for AI related tasks. Programming languages achieve the same thing. As far as I know NLP is for the computer to make sense of human language and thus it's sole purpose is deciphering of confusing languages like English. | |
| Jan 12, 2020 at 19:31 | comment | added | Borun Chowdhury | Sorry I don't understand and someone else has mentioned something similar in private communications so I'd be grateful if you could elaborate. Why are we comparing programming languages with Sanskrit for NLP? I thought the idea was that humans communicate in Sanskrit and then an AI system can work on it. If its about programming languages there were plenty of them around in 1985 so what was Briggs talking about? | |
| Jan 12, 2020 at 13:38 | comment | added | user9947 | In my opinion, the usefulness if Sanskrit has been covered by programming languages. Since I think your question is particularly about knowledge representation in Sanskrit, programming languages can do it in a much better way, since the output of a program is always deterministic irrespective of interpretation. So I don't think it's relevant, although I have seen lots of Indian researchers trying to make language models of Sanskrit. | |
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