Urdu Morphology, Orthography and Lexicon Extraction
Abstract
Urdu is a challenging language because of, first, its Perso-Arabic script and second, its morphological system having inherent grammatical forms and vocabulary of Arabic, Persian and the native languages of South Asia. This paper describes an implementation of the Urdu language as a software API, and we deal with orthography, morphology and the extraction of the lexicon. The morphology is implemented in a toolkit called Functional Morphology (Forsberg & Ranta, 2004), which is based on the idea of dealing grammars as software libraries. Therefore this implementation could be reused in applications such as intelligent search of keywords, language training and infrastructure for syntax. We also present an implementation of a small part of Urdu syntax to demonstrate this reusability.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2204.03071,
title = {Urdu Morphology, Orthography and Lexicon Extraction},
author = {Muhammad Humayoun and Harald Hammarström and Aarne Ranta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03071},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Published in CAASL-2: The Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, July 21-22, 2007, LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute, Stanford University