This paper demonstrates the question classification step towards building a question answering system in Bengali. Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language with about 230 million total speakers and one of the most spoken languages in the world. An important first step in developing a question answering system is to classify natural language question properly. In this work, we have studied suita...

Automatic Speech Recognition presents natural phenomena for the communication among man and machine. The purpose of Speech Recognition speech system is to convert the sequence of sound units in the form of text description. The main objective of the research work is to develop the automatic spontaneous speech model for the Punjabi language. Punjabi is categorized as a constituent of the Indo-Ar...

Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and is used by over 19 million people. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages and its origins date back to at least 2000 years. It has developed into its current form over a long period of time with influences from a wide variety of languages including Tamil, Portuguese and English. As for any other language, a Wo...

Languages vary in whether or not primary grammatical relations (PGRs) are sensitive to information from clause-level case or phrase structures. This variation correlates with a difference between verb agreement systems based on feature unification and systems based on feature composition. The choice between different PGR and agreement principles is found to be highly stable genetically and to c...