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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 blog post, we’ll be discussing […]

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 process of word formation due […]

This blog post is the second post in the series “Clustering Text Documents”. In the previous blog post (Clustering Text Documents: TF-IDF Weighting), we represented a given set of documents as a vector of tf-idf weights and in this blog post we’ll calculate the cosine of angles between those document vectors. But, before we jump […]

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 Derivations   Inflectional morphemes encode […]

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 types in Nepali.   You […]