A Rule based Kannada Morphological Analyzer and Generator using Finite State Transducer
Ramasamy Veerappan, P J Antony, S. Saravanan, K. P. Soman · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2011
M orphology plays an essential role in machine translation and many other natural language processing applications.Developing a well fledged morphological analyzer and generator (M AG) tools for highly agglutinative language like Kannada is a challenging task.The function of morphological analyzer is to return all the morphemes and their grammatical categories associated with a particular word form.For a given root word and grammatical information, morphological generator will generate the particular word form of that word.In the proposed project, we have developed a rule based M AG using finite state transducer.This project has been developed as part of the development of a machine translation system for English to Kannada language.The performance of the system was tested randomly against a set of lexicon containing approximately twenty thousand root words including noun, verb, adjectives and adverbs.