LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 5 May 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Sentence Boundary Disambiguation in Kannada Texts

Mona Parakh, Rajesha N. and Ramya M.

Abstract

The proposed paper reports the work on developing a system for identifying valid sentence boundaries in Kannada texts and fragmenting the text into sentences. The task of sentence boundary identification is made challenging by the fact that the period, question marks and exclamation marks, do not always mark the sentence boundary. This paper particularly addresses the issue of disambiguating period which can be a sentence boundary marker as well as a marker of abbreviation in Kannada. This methodology is devised to fragment corpora into sentences without any intermediate tools and resources like NER or Abbreviation List.

I. INTRODUCTION

As an important and challenging task sentence boundary disambiguation (SBD) is the problem in natural language processing of deciding where sentences begin and end. Often natural language processing tools require their input to be divided into sentences for various purposes such as building bilingual parallel corpora. “A parallel corpus is a collection of texts in two languages, one of which is the translation equivalent of the other. Although parallel corpora are very useful resources for many natural languages processing applications such as building machine translation systems, multi-lingual dictionaries and word sense disambiguation, they are not yet available for many languages of the world” [2].

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