SINHALA WEAPONS AND ARMOUR

A Computational Grammar of Sinhala for English-sinhala Machine Translation

Communication is fundamental to the evolution and development of all kinds of living beings. With no disputes, languages should be recognized as the most amazing artifacts ever developed by mankind to enable communication. Computer has also become such a unique machine, due to its capacity to communicate with humans through languages. It is worth mentioning that the languages understood by comp...

Living Weapons: Biological Weapons and International Security

In the summer of 1996, as a (much younger) Army infectious disease physician, I headed off to a new assignment with the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. It was a heady time to be entering the niche fi eld of biodefense. Five years before the events of 9/11 and the subsequent “Amerithrax” attacks would become an integral part of the ...

Sinhala Object Scrambling Revisited

Corpus-based Sinhala Lexicon

Lexicon is in important resource in any kind of language processing application. Corpus-based lexica have several advantages over other traditional approaches. The lexicon developed for Sinhala was based on the text obtained from a corpus of 10 million words drawn from diverse genres. The words extracted from the corpus have been labeled with parts of speech categories defined according to a no...

Report on Phonetics and Phonology of Sinhala

This report examines the major characteristics of Sinhala language related to Phonetics and Phonology. The main topics under study are Segmental and Supra-segmental sounds in Spoken Sinhala. The first part presents Sinhala Phonemic Inventory, which describes phonemes with their associated features and phonotactics of Sinhala. Supra-segmental features like Syllabification, Stress, Pitch and Into...