Design of Derivational Morphological Analyzer for
Kannada Language · 2014
We have developed a derivational morphological analyzer for Kannada Language. Derivational morphology deals with change of part of speech (POS) category from one basic category to another by the addition of derivational suffixes to the basic categories like noun, verbs and adjectives. Nouns can be derived from verbs and verbs can be derived from nouns and so on. There is no derivational morphological analyzer exists for Kannada. Existing systems have attempted only the inflectional morphology. The process of derivation is regular and productive in many instances for Kannada. But this is not true in all cases. Verbalizers are used in the process of derivation to verb. Nominalizers are used in derivation verb to noun. Finite state transducers are used for the implementation of the derivational analyzer. A set of verbs is