LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Parsing Noun Inflections: Tamil

Dr. P. T. Kingston and Dr. Samikkanu Jabamoney a/l Ishak Samuel

Abstract

“Parsing is an important process of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics which is used to understand the noun inflections of a natural language (NL) sentences confined to the grammar. Parser is a computational system which processes input sentence according to the productions of the grammar, and builds one or more constituent structures which conform to the grammar”1.Grammar based structural parsing provides solutions to some extent but it is very tedious for larger vocabulary corpus. This paper focuses noun inflections parsing of natural language text in Tamil language.

Features of Tamil Language

“Grammar of Tamil language is agglutinative in nature. Suffixes are used to mark noun class, number and case. Tamil words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most of the Tamil affixes are suffixes which can be derivational or inflectional. The length and extent of agglutination is longer in Tamil resulting in long words with large number of suffixes”2.

In Tamil, nouns are classified into rational and irrational forms. Human comes under the rational form whereas all other nouns are classified as irrational. Rational nouns and pronouns belong to one of the three classes: masculine singular, feminine singular and rational plural. Irrational nouns belong to one of two classes: irrational singular and irrational plural. “Suffixes are used to perform the functions of cases or post positions. Tamil verbs are also inflected through the use of suffixes. The suffix of the verb will indicate person, number, mood, tense and voice. Tamil is consistently head-final language”3. The verb comes at the end of the clause with a typical word order of Subject Object Verb (SOV).

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Dr. P. T. Kingston
Senior Lecturer
Fakulti Bahasa dan Komunikasi
University Pendidikan Sulthan Idris
35900 Tanjong Malim
Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malayasia
fkingston@gmail.com

Dr. Samikkanu Jabamoney a/l Ishak Samuel
Senior Lecturer
Fakulti Bahasa dan Komunikasi
University Pendidikan Sulthan Idris
35900 Tanjong Malim
Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malayasia
samjabarose@yahoo.com.my

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