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Developing LRs for Non-scheduled Indian Languages

A Case of Magahi

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Magahi is an Indo-Aryan Language, spoken mainly in the Eastern parts of India. Despite having a significant number of speakers, there has been virtually no language resource (LR) or language technology (LT) developed for the language, mainly because of its status as a non-scheduled language. The present paper describes an attempt to develop an annotated corpus of Magahi. The data is mainly taken from a couple of blogs in Magahi, some collection of stories in Magahi and the recordings of conversation in Magahi and it is annotated at the POS level using BIS tagset.

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  1. Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri & Deepak Alok

  2. Department of Linguistics, K.M.I., Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra, India

    Ritesh Kumar

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Kumar, R., Lahiri, B., Alok, D. (2014). Developing LRs for Non-scheduled Indian Languages. In: Vetulani, Z., Mariani, J. (eds) Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. LTC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8387. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08958-4_40

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