Hindi Wordnet at IIT Bombay Current Team:
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Prabhakar Pandey, Laxmi Kashyap, Salil Joshi, Arun Karthikeyan, Prachur Goel and many previous PhD, Masters and Bachelor Students and Research Staff
Hindi Wordnet at IIT Bombay Current Team:
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Prabhakar Pandey, Laxmi Kashyap, Salil Joshi, Arun Karthikeyan, Prachur Goel and many previous PhD, Masters and Bachelor Students and Research Staff
Great Language Diversity of India
Languages and the speaker population
13, 000, 000 Nepali 6000 Sanskrit 7, 000, 000 Konkani 72, 000, 000 Marathi 450, 000, 000 Hindi Population (2001 census; rounded to most significant digit) Language
Languages and the speaker population (contd.)
1, 000, 000 Bodo 1, 000, 000 Manipuri 33, 000, 000 Malayalam 60, 000, 000 Tamil 13, 000, 000 Assamese 5, 000, 000 Kashmiri Population (2001 census; rounded to most significant digit) Language
Major Language Processing Initiatives
IIT Bombay Natural Language Processing
Group heavily supported by Government
and Industry Mostly from the Government: Ministry of IT, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Science and Technology
Recently great drive from the industry: NLP efforts with Indian language in focus
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What is Hindi Wordnet
Wordnet – A lexical database
Hindi Wordnet Inspired by the English WordNet
Built conceptually
Synsets or the Synonymy Sets are the basic building blocks
Different organizing principles for different syntactic categories
Example Entry in Hindi Wordnet
Synset
{गाय,गऊ, गैया, धेनु}
{gaaya ,gauu, gaiyaa, dhenu}, Cow
Gloss
Text definition
सींगवाला एक शाकाहारी मादा चौपाया
(siingwaalaa eka shaakaahaarii maadaa choupaayaa)
(a horny, herbivorous, four-legged female animal)
Example sentence
हिन्दू लोग गाय को गो माता कहते हैं एवं उसकी पूजा करते हैं।
(hinduu loga gaaya ko go maataa kahate hain evam usakii puujaa karate hain)
(The Hindus considers cow as mother and worship it.)
In this slide : Only red things appear in hindi Wordnet not black.
गाय, गऊ
(gaaya ,gauu)
Cow
चौपाया,पशु
(chaupaayaa, pashu)
Four-legged animal
सींगवाला एक शाकाहारी मादा चौपाया
(siingwaalaa eka sakaahaarii maadaa choupaayaa)
A horny, herbivorous, four-legged female animal)
पगुराना ( paguraanaa)
ruminate बैल (baila) Ox कामधेनु
kaamadhenu
A kind of cow
मैनी गाय
mainii gaaya
A kind of cow
थन (thana)
udder पूँछ
(puunchh ) Tail शाकाहारी
(shaakaahaarii)
herbivorous Hypernym Attribute Hyponym Gloss Ability Verb meronym Antonym WordNet Sub-Graph: Hindi
Statistics
260000
Hits 13000
Hindi-English Linked
Synsets 33500
Related Synsets 80400
Unique Words 33500
Synsets
Impact, Use and Visibility of Hindi Wordnet
Free download with API under GPL
Available from LDC (linguistics data consortium), Upenn: topmost linguistic data repository in the worlds
Commercial license purchased by Google for work on Indian language search engine
To be available from ELRA: language data repository of Europe
Available from LDC-IL: LDC of India
Impact, Use and Visibility of created resources (continued)
Daily reference form all over the world
More than 2 Lakh hits so far since 2006
More than 3000 downloads
Pivot for wordnets of many Indian languages
Base resource used by many researchers for IL work on translation, summarization, cross lingual search
Hindi
Wordnet Dravidian
Language
Wordnet North East
Language
Wordnet Marathi
Wordnet Sanskrit
Wordnet English
Wordnet Bengali
Wordnet Punjabi
Wordnet Konkani
Wordnet Hindi Wordnet giving rise to other Indian Language
wordnets
Linked wordnets
Immense Lexical Resource
Great benefits to machine translation, cross lingual search
Very useful for language teaching, pedagogy, comparative linguistics
Akin to Eurowordnet, but critical differences due to typical Indian language characteristics
P.K.Patwardhan Award of IIT Bombay, 2008
Research Grant from Microsoft Research India for Multilingual database creation based on Hindi Wordnet
IBM India research grant for Unstructured Information Management with Hindi Wordnet as component
International Global Wordnet Conference, Jan 31-Feb 4, 09 A major
International
Event
Granted to
IIT Bombay
Because of
The success
Of Hindi
Wordnet
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