Samāsa-Kartā: An Online Tool for Producing Compound Words using IndoWordNet
Hanumant Harichandra Redkar, Nilesh Joshi, Sandhya Singh, Irawati Kulkarni, Malhar Kulkarni, Pushpak Bhattacharyya · 2016
Samāsa or compounds are a regular feature of Indian Languages.They are also found in other languages like German, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, etc. Compound word is constructed from two or more words to form a single word.The meaning of this word is derived from each of the individual words of the compound.To develop a system to generate, identify and interpret compounds, is an important task in Natural Language Processing.This paper introduces a web based tool -Samāsa-Kartā for producing compound words.Here, the focus is on Sanskrit language due to its richness in usage of compounds; however, this approach can be applied to any Indian language as well as other languages.IndoWordNet is used as a resource for words to be compounded.The motivation behind creating compound words is to create, to improve the vocabulary, to reduce sense ambiguity, etc. in order to enrich the WordNet.The Samāsa-Kartā can be used for various applications viz., compound categorization, sandhi creation, morphological analysis, paraphrasing, synset creation, etc.