[21:32:31] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> I thought of the parallels of Pāṇini’s system to Abstract Wikipedia when learning about this fascinating breakthrough in this article: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/solving-grammars-greatest-puzzle 
[21:32:31] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> Here are some parts of it that I found most relevant:
[21:32:33] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> 
[21:32:34] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student [Rishi Rajpopat] at the University of Cambridge. 
[21:32:36] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> [...]
[21:32:37] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> Pāṇini’s system – 4,000 rules detailed in his renowned work, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, which is thought to have been written around 500BC – is meant to work like a machine. Feed in the base and suffix of a word and it should turn them into grammatically correct words and sentences through a step-by-step process.
[21:32:39] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> [...]
[21:32:40] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> A major implication of Dr Rajpopat’s discovery is that now we have the algorithm that runs Pāṇini's grammar, we could potentially teach this grammar to computers.
[21:32:42] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> "Computer scientists working on Natural Language Processing gave up on rule-based approaches over 50 years ago", Rajpopat says.
[21:32:43] <wm-bb>	 <benjaminaaron> “So teaching computers how to combine the speaker’s intention with Pāṇini’s rule-based grammar to produce human speech would be a major milestone in the history of human interaction with machines, as well as in India's intellectual history."
[21:40:48] <wm-bb>	 <mahir256> hmmm, only the sixth volume of Srisa Chandra Vasu's translation of that work is on Commons