Title :
Reciprocal anaphora resolution in Pashto discourse
Author :
Ali, Rahman ; Khan, Mohammad Abid ; Bilal, Muhammad ; Rabbi, Ihsan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Peshawar, Peshawar
Abstract :
It is very important for an effective machine translation system to transform the multi-sentential discourses, of a source language, into simple and cohesion free discourses. Anaphora resolution is the predicament in computational linguistics that is responsible for the alleged problem. This paper is about the lexical (reciprocal) anaphora resolution in Pashto language and presents an algorithm that is based on the rules to resolve the reciprocal pronouns (RecipPro) of Pashto language. The algorithm has been tested on real world text taken from Pashto stories, novels, newspapers, Web-pages and showed an accuracy of 94.45%.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; language translation; natural language processing; Pashto discourse; Pashto language; computational linguistics; machine translation system; multisentential discourses; reciprocal anaphora resolution; reciprocal pronoun; Application software; Computational linguistics; Computer science; Concrete; Data mining; Humans; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Testing; Algorithm; Anaphora Resolution; Pashto Pronoun; Reciprocal Anaphora;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies, 2008. ICET 2008. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rawalpindi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2210-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2211-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICET.2008.4777464
