Gujarat Na jilla With Picture PDF file Part 01

Gujarat Na jilla With Picture PDF file Part 01

Abstract

Gujarati is one of the 22 official languages of India. It is an Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit. Gujarati wordnet is being built using expansion approach with Hindi as the source language. This paper describes experiences of building Gujarati wordnet. Paper discusses basic features of Gujarati language and evaluates suitability of Hindi language for expansion approach. Various issues related to synset linking using expansion approach and challenges related to language specific concepts are also discussed.

Introduction

Wordnets have emerged as a very useful resource for computational linguistics and many natural language processing applications. Since the development of Princeton WordNet (Fellbaum C., 1998), wordnets are being built in many other languages. Hindi Wordnet(Narayan D. et al., 2002) was the first wordnet for the Indian languages. Based on Hindi wordnet, wordnets for 17 different Indian languages are getting built using the expansion approach. One such effort is Gujarati wordnet. This paper describes experiences of building Gujarati wordnet.

The paper is organized as follows, section 2 gives introduction to Gujarati language, section 3 discusses the basic features of Gujarati language and section 4 describes influence of other languages on Gujarati and justifies use of Hindi language as base language for Gujarati Wordnet development. Synset development approach and synset categorization are discussed in Section 5 and 6 respectively. Section 7 gives the current status of Gujarati wordnet.Issues related to synset linking are discussed in section 8.

Gujarati Language

Gujarati, a native language of Indian state of Gujarat, is a member of Indo-Aryan family of languages. There are over 50 million speakers of Gujarati language.

Initially, the writing system of Gujarati was restricted to business writing , while the literature was in Devanāgarī script. The poetry form of the language is much older, enriched by poetry of poets like Narsinh Mehta. Gujarati prose writing and journalism started in 19th century. Protest writing against colonialism led to a string of powerful essays leading to the foundation of modern Gujarati literature.

01	ANAND	CLICK HERE
02	BHARUCH	CLICK HERE
03	SURAT	CLICK HERE
04	NAVSARI	CLICK HERE
05	DANG	CLICK HERE
06	TAAPI	CLICK HERE
07	NARMADA	CLICK HERE
08	CHHOTA UDEPUR	CLICK HERE
09	DAHOD	CLICK HERE