Publisher's Synopsis
This book is for those seekers who want to make a revisit to the 1984 statement: Sanskrit is best suited language for computer programming and connects to 21st century initiatives of A.I for Human Languages.The presentation plan used is over-view of 'language-technology relations, initiatives status and technology-trends emerging which impact human language future in digital space and devices. Three specific goals are explored to understand the legacy inheritance and ground reality for further planning to achieve the goals: 1. Identify the best technology options to facilitate research and outreach of Sanskrit to 2040- language user communities' without 5D- damages? (5D's: are distortions, digestion, dilution, degeneration, disconnection). 2. Revisit Panini studies to identify pathways to align Techno-linguistic models to get aligned to Brahmi Human language models, facilitating design and deployment of methods and systems delivering A.I for Non-English languages, Interactive Voice Interfaces for Brahmi language families, starting with Sanskrit? 3. What does it mean and take, to see Sanskrit as a programming language using brahmi native linguistics appropriate phonetics, semantics and morphology as provided in native grammars, lexicons documents and usage? Making Sanskrit stand on equal footing with other programming languages using Roman alphabet character set and romanization model? This book is a research- resource material Sanskrit-Computer: Language Appropriate Technology Course and Program offered by the author/s. Guiding thought for preparing this book is that Paninian Grammar rules and language model has the potential to deliver above goals. How to measure Progress by direction and benefit? What barriers to overcome? Language technology (L.T, currently anchored to representation of human languages through Romanization needs to evolve as Language Appropriate Technology (L.A.T) to serve non English like languages of nations by native natural scripts and user voices. De-Romanization and De-Anglicization of technology is the true beginning of Natural Language Processing in Language-Technology.Following are the visioned economic, social and national benefits of upgrade from L.T to LAT. (a)Skilled Job Creation in Language-Technology domain: Expand IT and .A.I. application markets elevated from the current framework of Romanization anchored Anglicized technology and address the needs of greater markets of Natural National Non-English like languages-market. (b) Technology that suits and serves the national language, languages of nation eliminates the language override and endangerment threats. (c) Natural language appropriate technology markets are fifty times bigger, diverse, stable and long lasting with cultural continuum in nations. More advanced technology is needed to deliver the solutions for this new global market. Language Appropriate Technology (LAT) is an inclusive and comprehensive evolution of the core concepts in 'Language-Technology (LT)' and Natural Language Processing (NLP).It is an effort to De-Romanize Human Language representation in Technology and imbalances triggered due to Anglicized Technology. It is an effort to eliminate the fears expressed as colonized web, digital death of language, mono-lingual web, Machines overtake, English override on non-English- non roman script languages. It is an effort to empower all human languages with equal rights and opportunities to enjoy the benefits of technology, using their native script, voices and grammars, without a dependency on Romanized representation in Anglicized technology frame. It is a perceived path way to eliminate the threat of techno-linguistic digestion of human languages to technology frame work. Natural language appropriate technology markets are fifty times bigger, diverse, stable and long lasting with cultural continuum in nations. More advanced technology is needed to deliver the solutions for this new global market.
