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Structural Ambiguity in Hindi

Madhu Priya

Abstract

Structural ambiguity resolution has been always the most important problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP) because parser often fail to handle these types of problems. Structural ambiguity occurs when a phrase or sentence has more than one underlying structure. In this research article I discuss the structural ambiguity and its resolution in Hindi by using hybrid approach. The approach combines both linguistics and probabilistic approach.

Keywords: Natural language processing, structural ambiguity, Hindi, phrases, sentences.

1. Introduction

We live in the world where we constantly face ambiguous information. A word, phrase, or sentence is ambiguous if it has more than one meaning. Ambiguity resolution has always been the most important testing ground in linguistics for parsing models. There are some ways of classifying ambiguity. Hurford and Hesley [1] group ambiguity into two, lexical and structural ambiguity. Structural ambiguity occurs when the meaning of the component words can be combined in more than one way [2]. One of the central issues in natural language analysis is structural ambiguity resolution. Correct phrase attachment determines the quality of structural analysis and as a consequence the semantic analysis of the natural language sentence. Contextual information, linguistics knowledge and world knowledge are the important requirements for successful resolution of structural ambiguity.

Hindi is the third most spoken language of the world. There are many ambiguous expressions found in Hindi at the structural level.

A human being can easily analyze the ambiguous sentence. This is because they, using contextual information and world knowledge from their lifetime experience. Automatic systems lack such common sense. To make the ambiguous sentences unambiguous and grammatical, it is necessary to have some sort of linguistics and world knowledge which help the machine recognize the sentence structure.

In this paper I describe different types and structural ambiguity in Hindi. Also, I will discuss about the process of disambiguation. Then, the findings are discussed. Finally, the paper ends with a conclusion and suggestions for further research.

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Madhu Priya
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Mysuru 570006
Karnataka, India
madhupriyapathak@gmail.com
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