A Survey of Morphological Analysis for Marathi Language

Natural language processing is a field which studies how machines can understand the natural languages used in human-to-human interaction. Any language consists of meaningful sentences. Sentences are made of elementary parts called words. Morphemes are the building blocks of words. Marathi is a morphologically rich language since it has various root words and affixes that come together to form a word. The properties of words change according to their role in the sentence (gerund, adjective, verb, preposition, etc.). Morphology studies the formation of words. The paper focuses on the survey of morphological features of Marathi, which have proven useful in applications like speech synthesis, machine translation, information retrieval and spell checking.