Sanskrit Lexical Sources, Digital Synthesis and Revision

• Applicant: Dr. Thomas Malten
• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: from 2010 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 173047245

The project aims to synthesize, extend, revise, and improve the principal lexical reference works in Sanskrit, one of the world s richest culture-bearing languages, and to provide wide public access to them in an integrated digital library. The project correlates headwords in existing digitized major Sanskrit lexical reference works and extends them by digitizing additions and corrections, specialized dictionaries, indigenous Indian monolingual dictionaries, traditional thesauri, and traditional linguistic analyses. The project links lexical resources with digitized Sanskrit texts in a growing digital Sanskrit library and provides lemmatized search facilities.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• International Connection: USA
• Partner Organisation: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Cooperation Partner: Dr. Peter M. Scharf