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Volume 11 : 5 May 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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A First Step Towards Parsing of Assamese Text

Navanath Saharia, Utpal Sharma and Jugal Kalita


Abstract

Assamese is a relatively free word order, morphologically rich and agglutinative language and has a strong case marking system stronger than other Indic languages such as Hindi and Bengali. Parsing a free word order language is still an open problem, though many different approaches have been proposed for this. This paper presents an introduction to the practical analysis of Assamese sentences from a computational perspective rather than from linguistics perspective. We discuss some salient features of Assamese syntax and the issues that simple syntactic frameworks cannot tackle.

Keywords: Assamese, Indic, Parsing, Free word order.

I. INTRODUCTION

Like some other Indo-Iranian languages (a branch of Indo- European language group) such as Hindi, Bengali (from Indic group), Tamil (from Dardic group), Assamese is a morphologically rich, free word order language. Apart from possessing all characteristics of a free word order language, Assamese has some additional characteristics which make parsing a more difficult job. For example one or more than one suffixes are added with all relational constituents. Research on parsing model for Assamese language is purely a new field. Our literature survey reveals that there is no annotated work on Assamese till now.


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Navanath Saharia
Department of CSE
Tezpur University
Assam, India 784028
nava.nath@yahoo.in

Utpal Sharma
Department of CSE
Tezpur University
Assam, India 784028
utpal@tezu.ernet.in

Jugal Kalita
Department of CS
University of Colorado
Colorado Springs, USA 80918
kalita@eas.uccs.edu

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