Morphological analysis of Bangla words for Universal Networking Language

Abstract

This paper focuses on morphological analysis of Bangla words to incorporate them into Bangla to universal networking language (UNL) processors. Researchers have been working on morphological structure of Bangla for machine translation and a considerable volume of work is available. So far, no attempt has been made to integrate the works for a concrete computational output. In this paper we particularly emphasize on bringing previous works on morphological analysis in the framework of UNL, with the goal to produce a Bangla-UNL dictionary, as UNL structures can provide, for any morphological analysis, a unified base to fit into already developed universal conversion systems of UNL. We explain the morphological rules of Bangla words for UNL structures. These rules tend to expose the modifications of parts of speech with regards to tense, person, subject etc. of the words of a sentence. Here we outline the morphology of nouns, verbs and adjective phrases only.