Automatic Syllabification for Manipuri language

Loitongbam Gyanendro Singh, Lenin Laitonjam, Sanasam Ranbir Singh


Abstract
Development of hand crafted rule for syllabifying words of a language is an expensive task. This paper proposes several data-driven methods for automatic syllabification of words written in Manipuri language. Manipuri is one of the scheduled Indian languages. First, we propose a language-independent rule-based approach formulated using entropy based phonotactic segmentation. Second, we project the syllabification problem as a sequence labeling problem and investigate its effect using various sequence labeling approaches. Third, we combine the effect of sequence labeling and rule-based method and investigate the performance of the hybrid approach. From various experimental observations, it is evident that the proposed methods outperform the baseline rule-based method. The entropy based phonotactic segmentation provides a word accuracy of 96%, CRF (sequence labeling approach) provides 97% and hybrid approach provides 98% word accuracy.
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C16-1034
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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349–357
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Loitongbam Gyanendro Singh, Lenin Laitonjam, and Sanasam Ranbir Singh. 2016. Automatic Syllabification for Manipuri language. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 349–357, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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