Interlingua based Sanskrit-English machine translation

Abstract

This paper is based on the work towards developing a machine translation system for Sanskrit to English. An interlingua based machine translation system in Paninian framework was developed in this work. As lexical functional grammar can handle semantic information along with syntactic analysis, the proposed system uses lexical functional grammar in different levels of analysis phase. In this system the given Sanskrit text is first converted to an intermediate notation called interlingua. This notation is then used for mapping to the target language, English, and generates the translated output. The proposed system works in the translation of simple and complex sentences in the given corpus. The karaka analysis system of Panini is used for the semantic analysis.