IIT Kanpur has an active Sanskrit community. In collaboration with Central Sanskrit University
(formerly, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan), IITK offers courses of
Non-Formal Sanskrit Education.
IIT Kanpur also has researchers working in
the field of Computer Science with a focus on the Sanskrit language.
They have developed several useful tools
related to Sanskrit.
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Jñānasaṅgrahaḥ,
a collection of numerous applications related to Sanskrit.
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Vaiyyākaraṇaḥ (वैय्याकरणः),
a telegram bot for Sanskrit grammar.
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PyCDSL,
a python interface to access various dictionaries from Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (CDSL).
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Annotation Tools,
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Saṅgrāhaka,
a framework for annotating nodes and entities towards construction and subsequent querying of knowledge graphs.
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Antarlekhaka,
a general purpose, multi-task annotation framework featuring sequential annotation of corpora towards a comprehensive set of computational linguistic tasks.