Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence
For context of Non-Indians: though ancient, there is little evidence Sanskrit ever was a common spoken language among laymen. It was the language primarily used for religious purposes. It was&#x2F;is a language of high culture and political elites.<p>Coming back to the premise of the paper, the grammar of this language is declared to be sufficiently easy to disambiguify such that it&#x27;s easier for computers to understand. Just to put it in context, this property is actually a part of many other languages including japanese. Pro tip: Most of japanese grammar can be covered with a handful of BNF grammar! Being an indian I know one other language spoken in the south of India that exhibits this property as well - Tamil. Equally ancient as sanskrit but widely spoken language even as of 2021.<p>Point being, the intention of the paper, though it sounds benign, there is a political context to it which cannot be set aside completely.