LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 8 August 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Application of NLP in Indian Languages in Information Retrieval

B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.

1. Introduction

Information is the need in today’s world and is available in abundance in a variety of modes and forms. In order to retrieve the same, research in the interdisciplinary topics have found out many schemes. One such scheme is the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aids to bring humans and the digital world closer. NLP and information retrieval are very different areas of research, and recent major conferences only have a small number of papers investigating the use of NLP techniques for information retrieval (Thorsten Brants). The very fact about NLP is that it facilitates user to search in the original language. In other words we train the computer to learn and retrieve in the natural language using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Now, major of the Indian Languages are on the NLP platform, wherein new technologies are being developed. The present study tries to analyse the research contributions in this field.

1.1 Scope of the Study

The study is limited to Indian Languages and for the years from 2000 to 2010. Such studies globally are more but the same in Indian languages are on the developing side. This is because of the inbuilt complexities of the properties of Indian languages. India, is rich with 22 Scheduled and 100 Non-scheduled Languages spoken by more than 10,000 persons each according to the latest Census 2001.

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B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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Central Institute of Indian Languages
Ministry of Human Resource Development
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