Open AccessAn Initial Study of Tree-Adjoining Grammar Formalism for Parsing Manipuri Language
Author(s) -
Yumnam Nirmal,
Utsav Sharma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of computer applications technology and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2319-8656
DOI - 10.7753/ijcatr1006.1003
Subject(s) - treebank , computer science , parsing , natural language processing , sentence , artificial intelligence , grammar , formalism (music) , tree adjoining grammar , natural language , linguistics , context free grammar , art , musical , philosophy , visual arts
We present an initial study into the representation of tree-adjoining grammar formalism for parsing Manipuri language. Being a low resource and computationally less researched language, it is difficult to achieve a natural language parser for Manipuri. Treebanks, which are the main requirement for inducing data-driven parsers, are not available for Manipuri. In this paper, we present an extensive analysis of the Manipuri language structure and formulate a lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar. A generalized structure of Manipuri phrases, clauses and the structure of basic and derived sentences have been presented. The sentence types covered in our analysis are that of simple, compound and complex sentences. Using the tree-adjoining grammar we have formulated, one can implement a Manipuri parser whose results can be of immense help in creating a Treebank for Manipuri.