A system for compound adverbs MWEs extraction in Hindi

Adverbs are one of the main aspects of grammar in almost all the languages as they play a vital role in formation of a sentence. The identification and extraction of Multi Word Expressions (MWEs) in Hindi is done by various researchers but this new category of adverbs in Hindi MWEs is not known so far. A lot of research is going on adverbs in many other languages but in Hindi MWEs, adverbs have not gained proper place. There are various combinations of adverbs which could be used as Multi words. The main focus of this paper is to extract those Adverbs combination or compound adverbs which act as MWEs in Hindi text. Further classification of these adverb is also proposed on the basis of type of adverbs. The system is developed and tested with the dataset obtained from CFILT Hindi corpus. Results are evaluated using the evaluation measures precision, recall and F-measure.