An Open Source Urdu Resource Grammar
Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Muhammad Humayoun, Aarne Ranta · 2010
We develop a grammar for Urdu in Grammatical Framework (GF). GF is a programming language for defining multilingual grammar applications. GF resource grammar library currently supports 16 languages. These grammars follow an Interlingua approach and consist of morphology and syntax modules that cover a wide range of features of a language. In this paper we explore different syntactic features of the Urdu language, and show how to fit them in the multilingual framework of GF. We also discuss how we cover some of the distinguishing features of Urdu such as, ergativity in verb agreement (see Sec 4.2). The main purpose of GF resource grammar library is to provide an easy way to write natural language applications without knowing the details of syntax, morphology and lexicon. To demonstrate it, we use Urdu resource grammar to add support for Urdu in the work reported in (Angelov and Ranta, 2010) which is an implementation of