arXiv:2606.24172v1 Announce Type: cross 
Abstract: More than a billion people communicate in Indic languages, yet the natural language processing infrastructure serving them remains fragmented and underdeveloped. The cause is structural: the field organizes its tools and benchmarks around individual languages or small subsets of genealogical language families, building separate analyzers, parsers, and datasets for each language and starting over for the next. This overlooks a deep regularity. Through more than two millennia of convergence around Sanskrit, Indic languages came to share a morphosyntactic architecture formalized in P\={a}nini's grammar, the Ast\={a}dhy\={a}y\={i}. This cuts across genealogical lines, uniting languages through a common framework. We argue that this P\={a}ninian framework supplies a unifying computational architecture the field has lacked, and that benchmarks grounded explicitly in it would make Indic language systems more accurate, more data-efficient, and more transferable, effectively merging many apparently disparate and sparse Indic language resources into a single high-resource metalanguage bedrock. We propose a four-part benchmark suite to render this shared architecture explicit, measurable, and ready to be leveraged for practical applications. Moreover, we underscore the question it raises for interpretability research: whether neural models trained on these languages come to represent P\={a}nini's categories on their own.

تم اقتراح إطار جديد لمعالجة اللغات الهندية، مع التركيز على الهيكلية المورفوسينتكية المشتركة المستمدة من قواعد بانيني، الأستادياي. تهدف هذه المقاربة إلى توحيد أدوات معالجة اللغة الطبيعية التي تم تطويرها حاليًا للغات هندية فردية، والتي تم التعامل معها تاريخيًا بشكل منفصل.

Se ha propuesto un nuevo marco para el procesamiento de lenguas índicas, enfatizando la arquitectura morfosintáctica compartida derivada de la gramática de Pāṇini, el Astādhyāyī. Este enfoque busca unificar las herramientas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural que actualmente se desarrollan para lenguas índicas individuales, que históricamente han sido tratadas de manera aislada.

Un nouveau cadre pour le traitement des langues indiques a été proposé, mettant en avant l'architecture morphosyntaxique partagée dérivée de la grammaire de Pāṇini, l'Astādhyāyī. Cette approche vise à unifier les outils de traitement du langage naturel actuellement développés pour des langues indiques individuelles, qui ont historiquement été traitées de manière isolée.

A new framework for processing Indic languages has been proposed, emphasizing the shared morphosyntactic architecture derived from Pāṇini's grammar, the Astādhyāyī. This approach aims to unify the fragmented natural language processing tools currently developed for individual Indic languages, which have historically been treated in isolation.