Title :
Identification of syntactic ambiguities in Pashto text
Author :
Bilal, Muhammad ; Khan, Mohammad Abid ; Ali, Rahman
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
Abstract :
Natural languages are inherently ambiguous. For a machine translation system, it is an essential task to resolve the ambiguities in the source language. Before resolution of ambiguities, their identification is an essential task. This research paper is about the classification and identification of syntactic ambiguities in Pashto text. Here, the identification is based on the parse trees build by the parser for the ambiguous phrases. An algorithm is proposed which correctly identifies syntactic ambiguities with a success rate of 64.3%.
Keywords :
grammars; natural languages; Pashto text; machine translation system; natural languages; parse trees; source language ambiguity; syntactic ambiguities identification; Books; Computer science; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Testing; Algorithm; Ambiguity; Pashto; Syntactic Ambiguity;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies, 2009. ICET 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Islamabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5630-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5631-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICET.2009.5353211