LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:3 March 2014
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Malayalam WordNet

Dr. S. Rajendran & Dr. Soman, K.P

Abstract

Work on Malayalam WordNet was initiated in Amrita Vishvavidya Peetam, Coimbatore in December, 2011 as a part of the project entitled “Development of Dravidian WordNet: An Integrated WordNet for Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam”, funded by Department of Information Technology, MCIT, Govt. of India. The main objective of the project is to build WordNets for Dravidian languages by making use of the already built Hindi WordNet under the project scheme IndowordNet.

Hindi WordNet has been built based on Princeton English WordNet which is a component of EuroWordNet. The main objective of EuroWordNet is to develop an extensive and high quality of multilingual database with WordNets for several languages (mainly European Languages such as French, German, Czech, Italian, etc.) in a cost-effective manner. On similar line, IndoWordNet is being built for Indian languages. Malayalam WordNet is a component of Dravidian WordNet which in turn is the component of IndoWordNet. Malayalam WordNet is an online lexical database. It is useful for many applications of Natural Language Processing.

1 Introduction

Malayalam WordNet aims to capture the network of lexical or semantic relations between lexical items or words in Malayalam. As we know, lexical items are related to one another in the hierarchical dimension as taxonomies (which show hyponymy-hypernymy and meronymy-holonymy relationship) and non-hierarchical dimension as opposites (which include complementaries, antonyms, antipodals, counterparts, reversives and converses) and synonyms (Lyons 1977, Cruse 1986). Also words are related to one another due to their derivational as well as collocational meaning. Componential analysis which studies meanings of lexical items in terms of meaning components or features can help us to capture the above mentioned network of relations in a more systematic way (Nida 1975a).

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Dr. S. Rajendran
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Computational Engineering and Networking
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Ettimadai
Coimbatore 641105
Tamilnadu
India
raj_ushush@yahoo.com

Dr. Soman, K.P.
Professor and Head
Department of Computational Engineering and Networking
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Ettimadai
Coimbatore 641105
Tamilnadu
India
Kp_soman@amrita.edu
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