Sentence Boundary Detection in Kannada Language
N Deepamala, Ramakanth Kumar. P · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2012
Sentence Boundary Detection is a pre-processing step for any Natural Language Processing application.Various algorithms have been used to achieve Sentence Boundary Detection or Disambiguation in different languages.In this paper, a rule based method is proposed and tested to achieve Sentence Boundary Detection for Kannada Language.Kannada being a grammatically rich Indian language is analyzed based on semantics and tested with a 227K bytes corpus.The code is written in C using wide characters, with support for Unicode.Results showed 99.2% success in detecting sentence boundary.