Noun-case and verbal agreement in grammar modeling for Urdu-Hindi languages

Author

Rizvi, S.M.J. ; Hussain, Mutawarra

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Pakistan Inst. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2005

fDate

30 Oct.-1 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

84

Abstract

There are many natural language processing applications of a computational grammar. In this paper, modeling of Urdu/Hindi noun-case and verbal system based on head driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) is presented. Urdu/Hindi have a strong noun case marking system, which results in free phrase order. Subject case depends on tense aspect and as well as on verb transitivity. Moreover, verbal morpheme and auxiliary in Urdu/Hindi tense system sometimes agrees with subject of the sentence, sometimes with object and sometimes takes default agreement. This results in a more involved model based on HPSG as compared with English, where dependency is always on subject. This paper proposes the modifications in HPSG based model of English that deals with more involved agreement requirements of Urdu/Hindi sentences.

Keywords

computational linguistics; grammars; natural languages; HPSG; Urdu-Hindi noun-case; Urdu-Hindi tense system; computational grammar; head driven phrase structure grammar; natural language processing application; verbal system; Application software; Books; Computer aided software engineering; Computer applications; Equations; Magnetic heads; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Vocabulary; Writing; HPSG; Hindi; Language Modeling; Urdu;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2005. IEEE NLP-KE '05. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9361-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598711

Filename

1598711