A Computational Grammar of Sinhala

Liyanage, Chamila; Pushpananda, Randil; Herath, Dulip Lakmal; Weerasinghe, Ruvan

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28604-9_16

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“…Further, in the written form, subject-verb agreement is enforced [38] such that, in order to be grammatically correct, the subject and the verb must agree in terms of: gender (male/female), number (singular/plural) and person (1st/2nd/3rd). However, in spoken Sinhala, the SOV order can be neglected [33] and male singular 3rd person verb can be used for all nouns [38].…”

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“…As shown in Fig 1, morphological analysis is a ground level necessary component for natural language processing. Given that Sinhala is a highly inflected language [22,33,38], a proper morphological analysis process is vital. The earliest attempt on Sinhala morphological analysis we have observed are the studies by Herath et al [112,113].…”

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“…The Sinhala state of affairs, is that, the first parser for the Sinhala language was proposed by Hettige and Karunananda [58] with a model for grammar [18]. The study by Liyanage et al [33] is concentrated on the same given that they have worked on formalizing a computational grammar for Sinhala. While they do report reasonable results, yet again, do not provide any means for the public to access the data or the tools that they have developed.…”

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“…Similar to Hettige and Karunananda [18], the work by Liyanage et al [33] also builds a CFG for Sinhala covering 10 out of the 25 types of simple sentence structures in Sinhala reported by Abhayasinghe [40]. This parser is unable to parse sentences where inanimate subjects do not consider the number.…”

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“…The later work by Liyanage et al [33] also involves formalizing a computational grammar for Sinhala. They claim that Sinhala can have any order of words in practice.…”

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Survey on Publicly Available Sinhala Natural Language Processing Tools and Research

Silva¹

2019

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Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people who make up the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka. The language belongs to the globe-spanning language tree, Indo-European. However, due to poverty in both linguistic and economic capital, Sinhala, in the perspective of Natural Language Processing tools and research, remains a resource-poor language which has neither the economic drive its cousin English has nor the sheer push of the law of numbers a language such as Chinese has. A number of research groups from Sri Lanka have noticed this dearth and the resultant dire need for proper tools and research for Sinhala natural language processing. However, due to various reasons, these attempts seem to lack coordination and awareness of each other. The objective of this paper is to fill that gap of a comprehensive literature survey of the publicly available Sinhala natural language tools and research so that the researchers working in this field can better utilize contributions of their peers. As such, we shall be uploading this paper to arXiv and perpetually update it periodically to reflect the advances made in the field.

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