Sanskrit Voyager: Unified Web Platform for Interactive Reading and Linguistic Analysis of Sanskrit Texts (2025.emnlp-demos)
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| Challenge: | Sanskrit Voyager enables users to search for words and phrases as they actually appear in texts . evaluation shows over 92% parsing accuracy on complex compounds compared to BuddhaNexus . |
| Approach: | Sanskrit Voyager is a web application for searching, reading and analyzing the Sanskrt literary corpus. |
| Outcome: | Sanskrit Voyager is a web application for searching, reading, and analyzing the Sanskrt literary corpus. |
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