Bipul Syam Purkaystha

Work place: Department of Computer Science, Assam University, Silchar, 788011, India

E-mail: bipul_sh@hotmail.com

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Research Interests: Natural Language Processing

Biography

Dr. Bipul Syam Purkaystha is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, Assam University, Silchar, India. Currently he is also the Dean of the School of Physical Sciences of the same University. His research interests include Computational Linear Algebra, Natural Language Processing.

Author Articles
A Morphological Analyzer for Reduplicated Manipuri Adjectives and Adverbs: Applying Compile-Replace

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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