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Developing POS Tagset for Dogri

Sunil Kumar, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed.
Central Institute of Indian Languages

Abstract

Annotated Text Corpora is an important resource for advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and for developing different language technologies. The annotation of corpora is done using a set of tags, which mark the linguistic properties of a word, sentence or discourse. In corpus linguistics the parts of speech tagging is also called as grammatical tagging or word category disambiguation. This is a process of marking up the words in text or corpus as corresponding to a particular part of speech based on both its definition, as well as its context i.e. the relationship with adjacent and related words in phrase, sentence, or paragraph. The corpora annotated with various linguistic information not only form a precious resource for language technologies but also involves large amount of effort and time. Therefore, it is important to create corpora which once created can be used for various purposes. In softwares like Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, speech recognition and other related areas, the significance of large annotated corpora in the present day is widely known. This paper makes an attempt to provide a structure of POS tag set module for Dogri language, one among the languages of Indo-Aryan family.

Keywords: Corpora, Dogri, Part-of-Speech (POS), Tagging, Tagset.

Dogri Language

Dogri is one of the modern Indo-Aryan languages along with Punjabi which have developed tonal contrasts. It has three tones: low / ? / mid / - / and high / ’/. Dogri is a morphologically rich language having the pre-dominant word order of Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) with a flexibility to rearrange the constituents as many Indian languages allow. Nouns are generally inflected for number, gender and case. There are two numbers –singular and plural; two genders-masculine and feminine; and three cases- simple, oblique and vocative. The oblique forms occur when a noun or noun phrase is followed by a postposition. Nouns are inflected according to their gender and the word final sound. Dogri is a modern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Jammu and Kashmir state and the adjoining areas of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and across the border in Sialkot and Shakargarh tehsils presently in Pakistan. As language part of the Census of India 2011 is not available so according to the Census of India 2001 the number of Dogri speakers is 22,82,589.

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Sunil Kumar, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed.
Senior Resource Person (Academic)
National Translation Mission
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Mysore 570006
Karnataka
India
sk07choudhary@gmail.com

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