A Morphological Analyzer to Enable English to Sinhala Machine Translation

Morphological analysis plays a key role in effective functioning of a parser of any machine translation system. Further, morphological analyzers are useful as supportive software tools to coin terms for a given language. This paper reports on the first morphological analysis system for Sinhala language. This comes out as a major step in the development of a Sinhala parser for machine translation from English to Sinhala. The paper describes how the morphological analyzer can detect grammatical information of a given Sinhala word, and generation of all possible forms of the given word. It is also presented how a language specialist can use our system to device Sinhala terms that are agreeable with Sinhala grammar. The system has been developed with the use of SWI-Prolog, and to runs on Windows and Linux.