Amarakosha, the Sanskrit
thesaurus developed by Amarasinha in 4th CE has influenced modern lexicographic
techniques in quite the same way as Panini has done to generative
linguistics. There have been attempts to put the text of Amarakosha online or
in digital formats. But there has been no attempt to create a version of this
work which not only lets user interactively build Unicode database but also
lets them search and test and do text analysis based on Amarakosha.
This project called Multilingual Online Amarakosha (OMA) was funded by UGC under UPOE program. It has a
Java-JSP front-end and SQL server as backend. The system
has the following features -
facility for online data entry/editing by language
experts
includes Sanskrit, Hindi, Kannada, Punjabi, Bangla,
Oriya, Assamese, Maithili and English. Scope for
other major Indian languages
multilingual data is being stored in Unicode
stores up to 50 synonyms with category, gender,
number information and detailed glosses
cross-referencing among synonyms
search capability in the supported Indian language
ontology display
Near future enhancements
include
a multilingual interface
selective data export in the user defined format
smarter search engine
text processing
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