Passives in South Asian Languages

Named Entity Recognition for South Asian Languages

Much work has already been done on building named entity recognition systems. However most of this work has been concentrated on English and other European languages. Hence, building a named entity recognition (NER) system for South Asian Languages (SAL) is still an open problem because they exhibit characteristics different from English. This paper builds a named entity recognizer which also i...

Constructing Corpora of South Asian Languages

The EMILLE Project (Enabling Minority Language Engineering) was established to construct a 67 million word corpus of South Asian languages. In addition, the project has had to address a number of issues related to establishing a language engineering (LE) environment for South Asian language processing, such as translating 8-bit language data into Unicode and producing a number of basic LE tools...

V. Dayal and A. Mahajan Clause Structure in South Asian Languages: General Introduction 1. South Asian Languages in Generative Grammar

“There is a tension between the demands of descriptive and explanatory adequacy. To achieve the latter, it is necessary to restrict available descriptive mechanisms so that few languages are accessible...To achieve descriptive adequacy, however, the available devices must be rich and diverse enough to deal with the phenomena exhibited in the possible human languages. We therefore face conflicti...

The intonation of South Asian languages: towards a comparative analysis

South Asia has long been considered a region of widespread convergence in phonology, morphology, and syntax. While these claims have not explicitly been extended to intonation in previous work, researchers such as Féry (2010) have suggested that multiple South Asian languages (SALs) from different families can be covered with the same intonational description, and that prominence and weight pla...

South Asian Languages and Semantic Variation: A Cross-linguistic Study