nasas take on sanskrit

NASA's take on Sanskrit!

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Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language, that has been the mother of a

variety of modern day langauges, as well as a rich source of

information in the form of the vedas/upanishads, etc. has been given a

new task...that of knowledge representation for Artificial

Intelligence, according to Rick Briggs, who is a part of the NASA

research center.

Some excerpts...

there is a widespread belief that natural languages are unsuitable

for the transmission of many ideas that artificial languages can

render with great precision and mathematical rigor.

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But this dichotomy, which has served as a premise underlying much

work in the areas of linguistics and artificial intelligence, is a

false one. There is at least one language, Sanskrit, which for the

duration of almost 1000 years was a living spoken language with a

considerable literature of its own. Besides works of literary

value, there was a long philosophical and grammatical tradition

that has continued to exist with undiminished vigor until the

present century. Among the accomplishments of the grammarians can

be reckoned a method for paraphrasing Sanskrit in a manner that is

identical not only in essence but in form with current work in

Artificial Intelligence.

Here is an example of the grammar of Sanskrit..

Sanskrit Semantic Net System

An in-depth explanation of the use of Sanskrit for knowledge

representation has been provided in this article...of course, some

other wonderful accomplishments of Indian philosphers, thinkers and

mathematicians have also been enumerated, such as the zero and the

binary system...

Zero Mathematical Symbol

Binary Number System

Well, this is a great phenomenon...if we can throw some light on the

discoveries from the Indian past and put them to use in the present

day world.

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artficial intelligence, zero, binary, Indian mathematical systems,

vedas, upanishads, semantic nets, NASA research center]

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