Work place: Department of Linguistics, Assam University, Silchar, 788011, India
E-mail: dhirensingha@rediffmail.com
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Research Interests: Natural Language Processing
Biography
Dr. Kh. Dhiren Singha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Assam University, Silchar, India. In addition to being a Principal Investigator for a project on ‘MEYOR LANGUAGE’ of Arunachal Pradesh, India, under the scheme for protection and preservation of endangered languages of the central institute of indian languages (ciil), mysore, he is also the editor of indian language review. He is the author of three books: An Introduction to Dimasa Phonology, Ahni Grao: My Language and Dimasa Word Book: A Classified Vocabulary. His research interests include Phonology, Morpho-syntax, Language Typology and Tibeto-Burman Linguistics.
By Ksh. Krishna B Singha Kh. Dhiren Singha Bipul Syam Purkaystha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2016.02.04, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2016
Finite-state implementations naturally denote concatenations of morphemes and are limited to modeling concatenative morphotactics. The non-concatenative structure, such as reduplication, in the computational morphology of many world languages cannot be handled completely by finite-state technology. This paper describes the non-concatenative phenomena of reduplication, occurs in the adjective and adverb word classes of Manipuri language using the formalism of finite-state morphology tools and techniques. The discussion covers the non-concatenative nature and the challenges in capturing the various reduplication phenomena exhibited by the two classes; then present a morphological analyzer of the reduplicated adjectives and adverbs. It has been implemented using XFST and LEXC with the application of compile-replace algorithm to the morphotactics description of the language, which includes finite-state operations other than concatenation, to capture reduplication phenomena.
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