Sanskrit Word-Net


1. San-Net (Word-Net for Sanskrit language) has been developed using Navya-NyAya Philosophy and Paninian Grammar.

2. Besides Synonymy, Antonym, Hypernym, Hyponym, Holonym and Meronyms etc., some more relation such as: Analogy, Etymology, Definition, Nominal Verb, Nominal Qualifier, Verbal Qualifier  and Verbal Noun have been introduced in San-Net.

3. Etymology, Analogy, Definition etc., have important roles in Navya-NyAya Philosophy, which is the specialty on this Sanskrit.Word-Net for a better classification of words.

4. Presently, we have developed a prototype of San-Net containing 300 Sanskrit words (250 nominal words and 50 verbal words)

5. San-Net can be used for Indian language understanding, translating, summarizing and generating.

6. A standard Knowledge Base (KB) has been developed for analyzing syntactic,semantic and pragmatic aspects of any lexicon