Reciprocal anaphora resolution in Pashto discourse

Author

Ali, Rahman ; Khan, Mohammad Abid ; Bilal, Muhammad ; Rabbi, Ihsan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Peshawar, Peshawar

fYear

2008

fDate

18-19 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

It is very important for an effective machine translation system to transform the multi-sentential discourses, of a source language, into simple and cohesion free discourses. Anaphora resolution is the predicament in computational linguistics that is responsible for the alleged problem. This paper is about the lexical (reciprocal) anaphora resolution in Pashto language and presents an algorithm that is based on the rules to resolve the reciprocal pronouns (RecipPro) of Pashto language. The algorithm has been tested on real world text taken from Pashto stories, novels, newspapers, Web-pages and showed an accuracy of 94.45%.

Keywords

computational linguistics; language translation; natural language processing; Pashto discourse; Pashto language; computational linguistics; machine translation system; multisentential discourses; reciprocal anaphora resolution; reciprocal pronoun; Application software; Computational linguistics; Computer science; Concrete; Data mining; Humans; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Testing; Algorithm; Anaphora Resolution; Pashto Pronoun; Reciprocal Anaphora;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies, 2008. ICET 2008. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rawalpindi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2210-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2211-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICET.2008.4777464

Filename

4777464