This paper describes our efforts for the development of a Proposition Bank for Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language. Our primary goal is the labeling of syntactic nodes in the existing Urdu dependency Treebank with specific argument labels. In essence, it involves annotation of predicate argument structures of both simple and complex predicates in the Treebank corpus. In this paper, we describe the ove...

Plosives in Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi and Marathi display a 4-way contrast involving the two dimensions of voicing and aspiration. While many studies are available on the acoustics of aspiration in unvoiced stops due to their more universal presence in the world’s languages, voiced aspirated plosives have been less studied. Rather than the release duration cue of aspiration in unvoiced...

In spontaneous speech, emotion information is embedded at several levels: acoustic, linguistic, gestural (non-verbal), etc. For emotion recognition in speech, there is much attention to acoustic level and some attention at the linguistic level. In this study, we identify paralinguistic markers for emotion in the language. We study two Indian languages belonging to two distinct language families...

Indian Languages are Indo-Aryan being influenced by Sanskrit or Dravidian being influenced by Tamil. Dravidian Languages have the influence of Sanskrit also. All Indian Languages have the influence of Pali language for which the graphemes are being influenced Brahmi. All the Indian languages are phonetic in nature. Every Indian language has its distinctive phone sets. North Indian languages are...

In this paper, we present our efforts towards incorporating external knowledge from Hindi WordNet to aid dependency parsing. We conduct parsing experiments on Hindi, an Indo-Aryan language, utilizing the information from concept ontologies available in Hindi WordNet to complement the morpho-syntactic information already available. The work is driven by the insight that concept ontologies captur...

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan Language and forms the official language of state of Maharashtra. It is ranked as the 4 most spoken language in India and 15 most spoken language in the world. When Computational Linguistic is concerned, writing grammar production for a language is a bit difficult because of different gender and number forms. This paper is an effort to write context free grammar for Mar...

Research in Parts-of-Speech (POS) tagset design for European and East Asian languages started with a mere listing of important morphosyntactic features in one language and has matured in later years towards hierarchical tagsets, decomposable tags, common framework for multiple languages (EAGLES) etc. Several tagsets have been developed in these languages along with large amount of annotated dat...

Speaker recognition is the identification of the person who is speaking by the characteristics of their voices. Assamese is a Indo-Aryan family of languages, mainly spoken in the North-Eastern of India. In this paper text dependent speaker modelling technique is used. The system contains training phase, the testing phase and the recognition phase. The database consists of utterance of 10 speake...

The present paper describes various syntactic sentence fusion techniques for Bengali language that belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family. Firstly a clause identification and classification system marks clause boundaries and classifies them as principle clause and subordinate clauses. A rule-based sentence classification system has been developed to categorize sentences as simple, complex an...

Complex predicate is a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb followed by a light verb that behaves as a single unit of verb. Complex predicates (CPs) are abundantly used in Hindi and other languages of Indo Aryan family. Detecting and interpreting CPs constitute an important and somewhat a difficult task. The linguistic and statistical methods have yielded limited success in mining this data....