The Linguistics Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 the First Paper on " Part-of-speech Tagging for Grammar Checking of Punjabi " Part-of-speech Tagging for Grammar Checking of Punjabi Noun and Modifier Agreement

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is one of the major activities performed in a typical natural language processing application. This paper explores part-of-speech tagging for the Punjabi language, a member of the Modern Indo-Aryan family of languages. A tagset for use in grammar checking and other similar applications is proposed. This fine-grained tagset is based entirely on the grammatical categories involved in various types of concord in typical Punjabi sentences. The morpho-syntactic features taken in this tagset are largely based on the inflectional morphology of Punjabi words. The motivation behind devising this tagset, with focus on agreement features of these languages, is that The Linguistics Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 The Linguistics Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 7 there is no tagset available for Punjabi or other Indian languages. The tagsets for other languages do not cover all the grammatical features, which are required for agreement checking in Punjabi texts. A rule-based tagger derived from this tagset is also described. This will be the first published POS tagger for Punjabi. The tagset described in this paper is recommended for grammar checking and other similar applications for the languages sharing grammatical features with Punjabi, more specifically the languages of the Modern Indo-Aryan family.