Implementing the GF Resource Grammar for Nepali Language

✍ Scribed by Simkhada Dinesh.

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✦ Synopsis

Publisher: Chalmers University of Technology
Publication date: 2012
Number of pages: 66

Natural Language Processing(NLP) has become one of the most practical and useful fields of computer science. When we look at the world wide web or off-line print media there are enormous amounts of useful information that is freely available, but often the language becomes barrier for them to be explored. Learning new language to access each piece of information written in another language is impossible task since we live in a world where we have more than 6000 spoken languages, of which 4500 have more than 1000 speakers. A natural approach to solve this problem is to build a reliable multilingual system that can easily help to translate the content from one language to another. Grammatical Framework(GF, Ranta, 2004) is one of the efforts to build a reliable multilingual translation system, where translation works in a very controlled environment so that we can trust output of the system.
The main aim of this project is to implement Nepali language as a resource grammar for Grammatical Framework, to achieve this goal we need to study every grammatical constructs of the Nepali language and formalize the Nepali grammar in such a way that we can express it in computational form.
This chapter explains the motivation behind this thesis, and also covers a brief introduction to grammatical framework and Nepali language. Chapter 2 covers the morphology of Nepali language and its implementation in Grammatical Framework. Third chapter explains the syntax part of the language and implementation details, as expected implementation of syntax part is complex compared to the morphological part. Morphology part describes the word structure of the language on the other hand syntax part covers the principles and rules for constructing sentences. Later chapters covers the possible future work, conclusion of the thesis work is given in the final chapter which is followed by appendix and references.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Непальский язык;Грамматика