Dependency Annotation Scheme for Indian Languages
Rafiya Begum, Samar Husain, Arun Dhwaj, Dipti Misra Sharma, Lakshmi Bai, Rajeev Sangal · 2008
The paper introduces a dependency annotation effort which aims to fully annotate a million word Hindi corpus. It is the first attempt of its kind to develop a large scale tree-bank for an Indian language. In this paper we provide the motivation for following the Paninian framework as the annotation scheme and argue that the Paninian framework is better suited to model the various linguistic phenomena manifest in Indian languages. We present the basic annotation scheme. We also show how the scheme handles some phenomenon such as complex verbs, ellipses, etc. Empirical results of some experiments done on the currently annotated sentences are also reported. 1