Publication Type : Conference Paper
Publisher : iDravidian, International Symposium for Dravidian Languages, Co-located with ICON2014
Campus : Coimbatore
School : School of Engineering
Center : Computational Engineering and Networking
Year : 2014
Abstract : Tree adjoining grammar (TAG) is specifically suited for morph rich and agglutinated languages like Tamil due to its psycho linguistic features and parse time dependency and morph resolution. Though TAG and LTAG formalisms have been known for about 3 decades, efforts on designing TAG Syntax for Tamil have not been entirely successful due to the complexity of its specification and the rich morphology of Tamil language. In this paper we present a minimalistic TAG for Tamil without much morphological considerations and also introduce a parser implementation with some obvious variations from the XTAG system