MITRA Search: Exploring Buddhist Literature Preserved in Classical Asian Languages with Multilingual Approximate Search

Part of the International Symposium "Buddhist Studies and Digital Humanities: 100 Years of the Taishō Tripiṭaka and 30 Years of SAT"

Session: Machine Translation and Buddhist Studies (15:30-16:30)

This talk will present MITRA Search, a system for exploring Buddhist literature preserved in classical Asian languages through multilingual approximate search capabilities. The presentation will demonstrate how this technology enables scholars to search across Buddhist texts in different languages and writing systems, facilitating comparative textual research and discovery of parallel passages.