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In this paper, I describe a hybrid dependency tree parser for Sanskrit sentences improving on a purely lexical parsing approach through simple syntactic rules and grammatical information. The performance of the parser is demonstrated on a group of sentences from epic literature.
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Hellwig, O. (2008). Extracting Dependency Trees from Sanskrit Texts. In: Kulkarni, A., Huet, G. (eds) Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. ISCLS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93885-9_9
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