DocumentCode :
2658546
Title :
Ellipses resolution in WH-constructions in Pashto
Author :
Ali, Mushtaq ; Khan, Mohammad Abid ; Ali, Rahman
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Peshawar, Peshawar
fYear :
2008
fDate :
23-24 Dec. 2008
Firstpage :
436
Lastpage :
440
Abstract :
The constructions in Pashto, having a question involving a WH-word equivalent and an answer or response to that question, are called WH-constructions. In most of the cases, in both written and spoken WH-constructions, there occur ellipses among them. This paper presents the first ever rulebased algorithm and the factors involved in ellipses resolution in WH-constructions in Pashto text. The algorithm resolves ellipses occurring in the answers to WH-questions by using the morphological and syntactic information of both the question and its corresponding answer. The algorithm accurately resolves the ellipses occurring in the answers to the questions having WH-words i.e. (Who-Dir), (Who-Obl), (What), (Which), (Where) and (How much) among them. The algorithm has been tested on real world text of Pashto taken from various genres such as books, novels, newspapers and online magazines. The algorithm achieved an accuracy of 76%.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; natural language processing; Pashto; WH construction; ellipses resolution; morphological information; real world text; rule based algorithm; syntactic information; Animation; Books; Computer science; Natural languages; Radiofrequency interference; Speech; Testing; WH-construction; antecedent clause; ellipses; elliptical clause; elliptical construction;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Multitopic Conference, 2008. INMIC 2008. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Karachi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2823-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2824-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/INMIC.2008.4777777
Filename :
4777777
Link To Document :
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