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ThePaninian framework proposeskarakas as semanticosyntactic relations that play a crucial role in mediating between surface form and meaning. The framework accounts for theta-role assignment, active passive, and control in a uniform manner. It has been successfully used in building an extremely fast prototype machine-translation system between two Indian languages. The constraint parser and the generator are designed with information theoretic considerations. Paninian framework is particularly suited to free word order languages. As most human languages are relatively word-order free, the Paninian framework should be explored as a serious contender for such languages. Based on the Paninian theory, the concept of language accessor oranusaraka has emerged, which has the potential to overcome the language barrier in India.
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In this paper non-English words occur many times and hence are italicized only at first mention.
Several people have worked on the implementation of the core parser: Sivasubramanian, B Srinivas, P V Ravisankar on the earlier version, and Jayvant Anantpur, Vasudev Verma, Amba Kulkarni on the current version. Mr V N Narayana has been working on the Kannada-Hindi anusaraka.
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Bharati, A., Chaitanya, V. & Sangal, R. Paninian framework and its application toAnusaraka . Sadhana 19, 113–127 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02760393
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