Title :
Lexical functional grammar for Urdu modal verbs
Author :
Abbas, Qaiser ; Khan, Ahsan Nabi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., NUCES, Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract :
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is developed to understand the syntactic and semantic structure of Urdu modal verbs from a corpus. The most popular tool XLE for parsing is used to implement LFG and analyze the results. Published literature of modal verbs in Urdu is very much short and limited in nature; however, modal verbs in Urdu are identified and collected from Urdu literature and English literature by translation. A huge corpus is analyzed and sentences including modal verbs like `UW´, `UL´ etc are extracted from the corpus. Rules are extracted from these sentences and finally, lexical functional grammar for these sentences is developed which provides syntactic and semantic structure of sentences.
Keywords :
grammars; Urdu modal verb; XLE parser; lexical functional grammar; sentences semantic structure; Computer science; Ethics; Permission; Predictive models; Watches; LFG; PRED; XLE parser; binding; lexicon; mobility; modal verbs; spontaneous; suggestive;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies, 2009. ICET 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Islamabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5630-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5631-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICET.2009.5353212
