Mangalam Dictionary Of Buddhist Sanskrit

The data

This repository contains the lexical data behind two online dictionaries developed at the Mangalam Research Center: 

the manually curated Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus of Buddhist Sanskrit 

the fully automated Mangalam Corpus Dictionary of Buddhist Sanskrit.

Both datasets are based on the Mangalam Corpus of Buddhist Sanskrit

related publications

Lugli, Ligeia (2024) 'Agile Lexicography: rapid dictionary prototyping with R Shiny, with examples from projects on Sanskrit and Tibetan'. In Grammatical Theory, Language Processing and Databases in Historical Linguistics. BRILL, pp. 121-149Lugli, Ligeia (2021) 'Dictionaries as collections of data stories: an alternative post-editing model for historical corpus lexicography'. In Itzok Kosem, et al. (eds.). Post-Editing Lexicography: eLex 2021, 216-231Lugli, Ligeia (2019) 'Smart lexicography for low-resource languages: lessons learned from Sanskrit and Tibetan.'  In: Kosem, Iztok et al.(eds.), Electronic lexicography in the 21st century : Smart lexicography, eLex 2019. Brno: Lexical Computing CZ, pp. 198-212.Lugli, Ligeia (2018) Drifting in timeless polysemy: Problems of chronology in Sanskrit lexicography. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. Vol. 39 (1): 105-129.

related projects

Lugli, Ligeia; Pollak, Senja; Martinc, Matej; Pelicon, Andraž (2023). Computing the Dharma: a natural language processing infrastructure to explore word meanings in Buddhist Sanskrit literature. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6800682.v2

Lugli, Ligeia (2024). Democratizing Digital Lexicography. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7207656

Acknowledgements

This work has been funded by the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages as part of the Buddhist Translators Workbench.

We thank Bruno Galasek-Hul for his contribution to data annotated before 2017