The logo of Sanganaka Lab
Prof. Pawan Goyal at the First Summer School on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics.
PhD scholar J Manoj Balaji at the First Summer School on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), MAHE Bengaluru with IIT Kharagpur.
Serving as Program Committee Co-Chair for the 8th ISCLS.
Keynote talk at the Sanskrit and AI workshop, 26 February 2026.
Invited talk at the 22nd ICDCIT, KIIT Bhubaneswar, 17 January 2026.
Sanganaka group members with Prof. Pawan Goyal at the National Workshop on “Contribution of Mimamsa to Discourse Analysis,” 16–17 November 2025.
Sanskrit and AI Conference poster highlighting AI-driven enrichment of Sanskrit.
Prof. Pawan Goyal being honored for EMNLP publications.
CSSL paper presentation and student interactions at EMNLP 2024.
Pretam Ray presenting the CSSL paper at EMNLP 2024.
Computational scholarship for a classical language
सा विद्या या विमुक्तये — “That is knowledge which liberates.”
The Sanskrit Computational Research Lab (Sanganaka) at IIT Kharagpur advances computational linguistics for Sanskrit — one of the world's oldest and most structured languages. Led by Prof. Pawan Goyal, the lab explores intersections of AI, classical linguistics, and Indian knowledge systems.
Guided by its motto, Sanganaka develops scalable, linguistically informed tools such as SanskritShala and DepNeCTI to bring Sanskrit into modern computational contexts. Research spans word segmentation, morphological analysis, syntactic parsing, prose–poetry conversion, compound structure detection, and machine translation, with a focus on integrating Paninian grammar into NLP pipelines.
Through this work, the lab bridges traditional scholarship and modern computation — reviving ancient knowledge while building a digital future for Sanskrit.
Sanganaka builds on the tradition of the Sanskrit Heritage Site and the Paninian grammatical framework, pairing that lineage with modern neural approaches — from segmentation to speech, from prose to poetry.