This blog post is the fourth post in the series 'Derivation in Nepali'. In the previous posts (An Introduction to Derivation in Nepali, Derivation in Nepali: Affixation and Derivation in Nepali: Compounding), we gave a brief introduction to derivations in Nepali and discussed the process of affixation and compounding in Nepali. In the…
This blog post is the third post in the series 'Derivation in Nepali'. In the previous posts (An Introduction to Derivation in Nepali and Derivation in Nepali: Affixation), we gave a brief introduction to derivations in Nepali and discussed the process of affixation. In the blog post, we'll be discussing another common…
Afffixation (सर्ग प्रक्रिया) is the process which involves attaching an affix to a root or stem. Affixation in Nepali can be of two types and they are suffixation (प्रत्यय प्रक्रिया) and prefixation (उपसर्ग प्रक्रिया). In this blog post, we will discuss in details about derivation due to affixation. Inflections v/s…
Figure 1: Derivations in Nepali In linguistics, the formation of new words from free morphemes is a very common process. The process of word formation (शब्दनिर्माण / शब्दरचना) in Nepali can be divided into inflection (रुपायन) and derivation (व्युत्पादन). In this blog post, we'll briefly discuss derivation and its…
Negation is used to express the opposite meaning of affirmative sentences. Negation in Nepali verbs takes place due to affixation(suffixation and prefixation). The negative case marker न(na) is either prefixed or suffixed with verb roots or verb forms to express negation. Negation due to Prefixation Negation in…
A well chose tagset is very important in part-of-speech tagging. The NELRALEC tagset contains 112 tags, which large in number. Using such large tagset is not always efficient, especially in cases where there is a limited annotated data available. In this blog post we'll discuss a new tagset for Nepali, which…
Part-of-speech tags are word classes or syntactic categories of words. They carry important information about words, their neighbours and how they relate to each other. Other important information carried by part-of-speech is the possible morphological affixes for a given word. Part-of-speech tagging is an important task in natural language…
Removing stop words is a common and important practice when working with text analysis applications. So, what are stop words and why filter them out during pre-processing? Stop words are the words used in defining the structure of sentences. These are the most frequent words in a corpus but they do not…
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language. It is written in Devnagari script. Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Sanskrit are some other languages written in the same script. It follows Subject + Verb + Object pattern in writing and is written from left to right. This blog post will serve as an introduction…
Tokenization is generally the first step in text analysis applications. It is the process of splitting the given string into units, called tokens. A token is a sequence of character, usually word or sentence that is semantically significant for text analysis. Tokenization is a language specific task, for instance, language…
