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Rule-based systems based on two-level morphology for tagging the morphological features of a word work quite well for Bengali language and are able to predict all possible morphological derivations for standard forms of words whose roots occur in the dictionary. However many words have multiple morphological derivations and the correct morphological derivation depends upon the context of the word. Non-dictionary words are also very frequent. Machine learning based methods have been used for predicting the values of morphological features of a word which take into account the context of the word. Although the machine learning systems to some extent can disambiguate the cases related to the words with multiple possible values, these systems needs to be improved to make more efficient use of the character-level information. Character-level information is particularly important for analysis of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words which are not seen in the training data. We propose a method which makes use of both the context of the word as well as makes efficient use of the constituent characters of the words in order to develop a high quality morphological analyzer for Bengali. In this work we show that using character-level information along with the contextual information improves the performance of the morphological analyzer both for the OOV words and in predicting the correct analyses for the instances of the words that can have multiple morphological derivations.
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Das, A., Sarkar, S. (2023). MorphBen: A Neural Morphological Analyzer for Bengali Language. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13451. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_42
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