Directory structure of repository

[funderburkjim]

Here is a brief description of the directory structure of this MWinflect repository, based on current thinking.

• inputs contains mw extracts and inputs (stem,model) upon which derivations are based.
  • inputs/nominals stem,model files for nouns. Also a file for the indeclinables
  • inputs/verbs ditto for verbs
• outputs declensions and conjugations based upon the information from the inputs
  • outputs/nominals declensions for nouns (also adjectives). Also a file for indeclineables
  • outputs/verbs conjugations for verbs.
• inflect scripts to generate outputs from inputs. Also, various tests to compare outputs with declensions/conjugations available from other sources.
• pysanskrit Python code that does the inflection.

[funderburkjim]

pysanskrit objectives

In addition to providing reliable inflections, the code should be as straightforward as possible.

The code is derived from a previous project: pysanskritv1. and this previous python code was a translation of code written in Elisp (Emacs lisp). One flaw of this previous code is that it is often quite convoluted, and thus difficult to understand and improve. It is hoped that the current code will remedy this flaw to a great extent.

[gasyoun]

How are the generated forms proofed?

[funderburkjim]

How proofed ?

Proofing the generated forms is certainly an important topic. Some of the possibilities:

• comparison with my previous work, notably the data underlying the current two inflected forms displays:
  • fflex1 and
  • fflex2 One of the motivations for the current revision is to detect and correct errors which are present in this older work.
• Peter Scharf/ Malcolm Hyman 'gshell' inflection engine -- some of the rules used in the code generation derives from this work, or my adaptation of it.
• Comparison with declensions/conjugations which appear in several Sanskrit grammars:
  • Antoine Sanskrit manual, vols 1 and 2
  • Kale Higher Sanskrit Grammar
  • Deshpande saMskftasuboDinI text
  • Whitney grammar
  • other texts that come to my attention
• Grammatical comments that appear in MW dictionary
• Gerard Huet's inflection information as
  • on the grammar page of his website
  • in a download of inflected forms which he has provided (I think Dhaval knows a link for this download).
• Attention by you and others who may be following this work.

[drdhaval2785]

https://gitlab.inria.fr/huet/Heritage_Resources/blob/master/XML/SL/SL_nouns.xml houses the inflected forms as per Gerard Huet's site. Also see http://sanskrit.inria.fr/xml.html and https://gitlab.inria.fr/huet/Heritage_Resources/tree/master/XML/SL for details of how the XML is organized.

[drdhaval2785]

@funderburkjim and @gasyoun We can parse the XML by Gerard and test the inflected forms in our database and his database.

[gasyoun]

Jim, what's your take? The pirate is back in our boat.