Identification of Reduplication in Bengali Corpus and their Semantic Analysis: A Rule Based Approach
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay · 2010
In linguistic studies, reduplication gener-ally means the repetition of any linguis-tic unit such as a phoneme, morpheme, word, phrase, clause or the utterance as a whole. The identification of reduplica-tion is a part of general task of identifica-tion of multiword expressions (MWE). In the present work, reduplications have been identified from the Bengali corpus of the articles of Rabindranath Tagore. The present rule-based approach is di-vided into two phases. In the first phase, identification of reduplications has been done mainly at general expression level and in the second phase, their structural and semantics classifications are ana-lyzed. The system has been evaluated with average Precision, Recall and F-Score values of 92.82%, 91.50 % and 92.15 % respectively. 1