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Construction of Database for Quantitative Analysis of Language with a View to Clarify the Process of Composition of the Ancient Indian Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K20697
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Medium-sized Section 2:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

Amano Kyoko  京都大学, 文学研究科, 人文学連携研究者 (80343250)

Project Period (FY) 2020-07-30 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,370,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,470,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywords古代インド / ヴェーダ / サンスクリット / 文法解析 / TEI / タグ付けプログラム / データベース / マイトラーヤニー・サンヒター / TEIデータ / コーパス / 自動文法解析 / 言語分析 / XMLデータ / SanskritTagger / DCS / サンスクリット語 / ヴェーダ文献 / 文体計量分析 / 文法解析データベース
Outline of Research at the Start

本研究は、古代インド文献の計量分析を行うためのデータベースの構築を目指す。古代インド語(サンスクリット語)は、単語同士の接触部分が融合や音変化を起こすことから、各単語を正しく切り離し、原形と文法形を解析する作業の自動化が困難である。解析データも少しずつ作成されているが、完全な解析自動化はまだ不可能であり、膨大なサンスクリット文献が手つかずで残されている。そこで、解析プログラムを開発中のチューリヒ大学のHellwig博士と共同でデータベースを作成する。文法解析データを用いた文体分析はサンスクリット文献にはほとんど例がなく、成立過程の不明な古代の文献への応用は今までにない研究進展の可能性を拓く。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to create data with grammatical analysis that will enable quantitative analysis of the Vedas, the ritual literature of ancient India. A program for grammatical analysis of Sanskrit that was published by O. Hellwig of the Dusseldorf University in 2009 opened up the possibility of automatically generating grammatical analysis data, but checking and correcting the analysis results are essential. Therefore, in collaboration with Hellwig, we constructed a system for checking and correcting the results of automatic analysis that can work interactively on the web. Using this system, we have created data with grammatical analysis of Vedic literature and stored it in the website "Digital Corpus of Sanskrit". Based on the created data, we are analyzing the linguistic features of the literature, to clarify the internal construction (historic layers) in a text and also the relationships among several texts.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、成立に謎が多い古代インドのヴェーダ文献の言語について、詳しく分析する可能性を拓く、文法解析付きデータベースの作成を目指したものである。コンピュータによる言語の分析は、多くの資料を扱うことができ、細かい言語的特徴を捉えることが可能であることから、ヴェーダ文献の成立とその背景となる社会の解明に繋がると考えられる。本研究は、ヴェーダ文献の文法解析付きデータを正確かつ効率的に行うシステムの構築を行い、いくつかの重要文献のデータ化を達成した。このデータを用い、文献の言語的特徴から文献成立過程を解き明かす分析の試行を行い、今後の研究発展の可能性を示した。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 5 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 6 results) Remarks (2 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Dusseldorf University(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Dusseldorf University/Leipzig University(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] etad va esabhyanukta in the Maitrayani Samhita. The Beginning of Didactical Verse Embedded in Narrative Prose2023

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Indological Studies

      Volume: 34-35

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Is Indra a Sun God?2022

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies

      Volume: 70 Pages: 1039-1044

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] etad va esabhyanukta in the Maitrayani Samhita. The Beginning of Didactical Verse Embedded in Narrative Prose2022

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Indological Studies

      Volume: 32

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 古代インド文献の文献間影響関係の可視化2021

    • Author(s)
      天野恭子、夏川浩明
    • Journal Title

      可視化情報シンポジウム 2021 講演論文集

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] What is 'knowledge' justifying a ritual action? Uses of ya evam veda / ya evam vidvan in the Maitrayani Samhita2020

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Journal Title

      Collection Religions, Comparatisme - Histoire = Anthropologie

      Volume: 10 Pages: 39-68

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Visualization of the relationship among Vedic texts and observation of the development of Yajurveda texts2023

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano, Hiroaki Natsukawa
    • Organizer
      A Three Day International Seminar on Paninian Grammar & its Applications 13-15 February 2023
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The Vedic corpus as a graph. An updated version of Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance2023

    • Author(s)
      Oliver Hellwig, Sven Sellmer, Kyoko Amano
    • Organizer
      The 18th World Sanskrit Conference 2023. 9-13 January 2023
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Apri verses and prayajas in the Maitrayani Samhita, and their relationship to the Rgveda khila2023

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Organizer
      World Sanskrit Conference 2023
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] History of prayaja `opening worship' and apri hymn in Vedic ritual2022

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Organizer
      Der 34. Deutsche Orientalistentag
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The Result of the Two-Year SPIRITS Project and Our Vision for the Next Research2022

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Organizer
      Ancient India meets Data-Science. The 2nd and concluding Workshop for the SPIRITS project "Chronological and Geographical Features of Ancient Indian Literature Explored by Data-Driven Science"
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Maitrayani Samhita IV 14 (kamya-pasuのためのrc)とRgveda I巻2021

    • Author(s)
      天野恭子
    • Organizer
      2021年度インド思想史学会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] インドラは太陽神か? 黒ヤジュルヴェーダ・サンヒターにおける思想潮流の多重性2021

    • Author(s)
      天野恭子
    • Organizer
      日本印度学仏教学会第72回学術大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Historical Background of the Formation of the Vedas in Ancient India as Deciphered from the Visualization of the Influential Relations among the Vedic Texts2021

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Organizer
      KUDH International Conference. Digital Transformation in the Humanities
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 古代インド文献の文献間影響関係の可視化2021

    • Author(s)
      天野恭子、夏川浩明
    • Organizer
      可視化情報シンポジウム 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Problems in the Formation of the Vedas, Ancient Indian Religious Texts2021

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Organizer
      Dynamism of Social Context Deciphered by a Linguistic Analysis of Ancient Literature
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Relationship Among Vedic Schools Deciphered by the Visualization of Mantra Collocation2021

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Organizer
      Dynamism of Social Context Deciphered by a Linguistic Analysis of Ancient Literature
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Diversity of Vedic ritual. Its different origins, innovations and the composition of the canons2021

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Amano
    • Organizer
      Letture Vediche: Il dono: croce e delizia dei brahmani
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Remarks] データ駆動型科学が解き明かす古代インド文献の時空間的特徴

    • URL

      https://ancientindia-datascience.jp/

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] データ駆動型科学が解き明かす古代インド文献の時空間的特徴

    • URL

      https://ancientindia-datascience.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report 2020 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Ancient India meets Data-Science. The 2nd and concluding Workshop for the SPIRITS project "Chronological and Geographical Features of Ancient Indian Literature Explored by Data-Driven Science"2022

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Dynamism of Social Context Deciphered by a Linguistic Analysis of Ancient Literature.2021

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report

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Published: 2020-08-03   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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