Automatic conversion of Indian Language Morphological Processors into Grammatical Framework (GF)

Grammatical framework (GF) is an open source software which supports semantic abstraction and linguistic generalization in terms of abstract syntax in a multilingual environment. This makes the software very suitable for automatic multilingual translation using abstract syntax which can be treated as a interlingua. As a first step towards building multi-Indian language translation system using GF platform, we aim to develop an automatic converter which will convert morphological processors available in various formats for Indian languages into GF format. In this paper we develop a deterministic automatic converter that converts LTtoolbox and ILMT morphological processors into GF format. Currently we have converted Hindi, Oriya and Tamil processors using our converter with 100% information preserved in the output. We will also report in this paper our effort of converting Sanskrit and Marathi LTtoolbox morphological processor into GF format.