Handling Plurality in Bengali Noun Phrases
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چکیده
Plurality of a Bengali Noun Phrase (NP) is not always determined by the plurality of its governing member (or the head). It is often seen that an NP is plural but the plurality is indicated through qualifiers or other means whereas the head noun has the singular form. In such scenarios, the plurality of the NP is determined by analyzing its non-head members or from other components (or context) of the sentence. Classification of Bengali NPs with respect to plurality is important for many applications including Machine Translation (MT) from Bengali to other language (say Hindi). The plurality of NPs in other languages like Hindi and English is always indicated by plurality of head irrespective of the plurality of the qualifiers. In this paper, we have investigated different sources from where the plurality information of head noun (or NP) can be collected and proposed an approach to automatically classify Bengali NPs by analyzing the identified sources.
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