A Study towards Design of an English to Sanskrit Machine Translation System.

We are experimenting to examine how AnglaBharati system designed to translate English to Indian languages could be adapted for translation to Sanskrit. The main contribution of our work is demonstration of machine translation of English to Sanskrit for simple sentences based on PLIL generated by AnglaBharati and Aṣṣādhyāyī rules. Presently our translation system caters to affirmative, negative, interrogative, imperative, active and passive voice sentences. In our study, we have selected a set of nouns and verbs that represent different semantic categories besides a few adverbs and adjectives. We anticipate using a number of Sanskrit resources on Aṣṣādhyāyī and morphological synthesis [2]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]