A paninian approach to parsing relative clauses in Hindi and Arabic

Eades, D; Pedersen, M; Prakesh, L; Amin, S

Abstract

We present a comparative analysis of relative clauses in Hindi and Arabic in the tradition of the Paninian Grammar Framework (Bharati et al., 1996b) which leads to deriving a common logical form for equivalent sentences. Parallels
are drawn between the Hindi co-relative construction and resumptive pronouns in Arabic. The analysis arises from the development of lexicalised dependency grammars for Hindi and Arabic that have application for machine translation.

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2004
• Deposit Date: Sep 3, 2010
• Pages: 33-42
• Book Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing
• ISBN: 8177647245
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