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IJCATR Volume 10 Issue 6
An Initial Study of Tree-Adjoining Grammar Formalism for Parsing Manipuri Language
Yumnam Nirmal, Utpal Sharma
10.7753/IJCATR1006.1003
keywords : Parsing; Tree-adjoining grammar; Tibeto-Burman; Manipuri
We present an initial study into the representation of tree-adjoining grammar formalism for parsing Manipuri language. Being a low resource and computationally less researched language, it is difficult to achieve a natural language parser for Manipuri. Treebanks, which are the main requirement for inducing data-driven parsers, are not available for Manipuri. In this paper, we present an extensive analysis of the Manipuri language structure and formulate a lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar. A generalized structure of Manipuri phrases, clauses and the structure of basic and derived sentences have been presented. The sentence types covered in our analysis are that of simple, compound and complex sentences. Using the tree-adjoining grammar we have formulated, one can implement a Manipuri parser whose results can be of immense help in creating a Treebank for Manipuri.
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Title = "An Initial Study of Tree-Adjoining Grammar Formalism for Parsing Manipuri Language",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research(IJCATR)",
Volume = "10",
Issue ="6",
Pages ="142 - 148",
Year = "2021",
Authors ="Yumnam Nirmal, Utpal Sharma"}
The paper proposes a tree-adjoining grammar (TAG) formalism for Manipuri language.
TAG structures for Manipuri phrases, clauses, sentences, as well as derived sentences have been formulated.
For deriving TAG structure for sentences, sub-categorization information of verbs is used.
The proposed Manipuri TAG can be used for implementing a Manipuri parser and will be helpful for creating a Manipuri Treebank.