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Morph-Synthesizer for Oriya Language
A Computational Approach

Rudranarayan Mohapatra, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Lipi Hembram, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

Dealing with agglutinative languages like Oriya, Morph-Synthesizer plays a vital role for machine translation system in order to increase the output accuracy level. To build a morph-synthesizer for a language, it is necessary to take care of the morphological peculiarities of the language, specifically in Machine Translation (MT). In this paper, we describe our work on rule-based Oriya morph-synthesizer. Here we have concentrated only on the synthesis of the Nouns. Noun synthesis in Oriya depends upon the feature (animacy and honorific) and demands the semantic account and behaviors of the noun-endings.

Key Words: Morpheme, Post positions, PP Decision Maker (PPDMP), gender, Number, person, Animacy

1. Introduction

The present work aims to build a computational model for the analysis and generation of morphological-synthesizer in Oriya language, the language being one of the official languages of the state of Orissa, situated in the eastern part of India. It belongs to Eastern Indo-Aryan group. Some peculiarities of this language - the usages of classifiers, feature base agreement, and semantic contextual agreement, etc., make it morphologically complex and, thus, a challenge in NLG. Generation of syntactically and semantically correct sentences needs appropriate choice among different forms of words. In this paper, we discuss the features of morph-synthesizer in Oriya language, specially focusing on nominal synthesizer. Through its implementable algorithm, a suitable conclusion is drawn.

2. Oriya Language and Morpheme

In Oriya language, a morpheme termed as the smallest unit in the language that carries and conveys a unique meaning and is grammatically appropriate. A morpheme in Oriya is the most minuscule meaningful constituent which combines and synthesizes the phonemes into a meaningful expression through its form and structure. Thus, in essence, the morpheme is a structural combination of phonemes in Oriya. In other words, in Oriya language, the morpheme is a combination of sounds that possess and convey a meaning. However, a morpheme is not necessarily a meaningful word in Oriya. Morphemes are the smallest units of sentence analysis and include root words, prefixes, suffixes, and verb endings. So in Oriya, every morpheme is either a base or an affix prefix or a suffix. For example, 'apraakrutikataaru' has four morphemes as 'a-praakrutika-taa-ru'.

Again the major morphological contents in Oriya language are Pronoun Morphology, Inflectional Morphology and Derivational Morphology on which our Morphological synthesizer has been built up (Mohapatra Pandit N. and Dash S., 2000, Sarbasara Byakarana, New Students Store, Cuttack, Orissa, India). Taking the above content with a hybrid combination of syntax and semantic features the synthesizer exercise is here being tried out.

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Rudranarayan Mohapatra, Ph.D.
C-DAC
Pune 411007
Maharashtra, India
Rudra1979@gmail.com

Lipi Hembram, M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D
Utkal University
Bhubaneswar 751004
Orissa, India
Kamalakanta2007@gmail.com

 
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