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Building Telugu WordNet Using Expansion Approach

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WordNet building activities in Dravidian languages started with the work of Tamil WordNet (Project partially funded by Tamil Virtual University.) at AU-KBC Research Centre utilizing Rajendran’s (2001) ontological classification of Tamil vocabulary. The first phase of the work on Dravidian WordNet (comprising WordNets in four major Dravidian languages, viz., Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu) was initiated with funding from Ministry of HRD, Government of India, and the work was carried out for Kannada at University of Hyderabad, Malayalam at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Tamil at Tamil University, and Telugu at Dravidian University. Currently, the second phase of the Dravidian WordNet (with funding from DeitY, Government of India) is being carried out at Dravidian University (Telugu), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Malayalam), Tamil University (Tamil), and University of Mysore (Kannada). In this paper, we describe the construction of synsets for Telugu language. Based on the Hindi WordNet synsets, we developed synsets (synonym sets) in Telugu using the expansion approach. This chapter is organized as follows: Sect. 11.2 gives a brief account on the morphological features of Telugu language. This section also provides the language technology activities pertaining to Telugu language. Section 11.3 details the Telugu synset building activity, challenges/problems faced during the construction of synsets in general, and construction of synsets pertaining to kinship and address terms in particular. The last section summarizes the work.

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    Developed by G. Uma Maheswar Rao at the Centre for ALTS, University of Hyderabad.

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    Consortia on Indian-Language-Indian Language MT systems established by MCIT, GoI.

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    Achievements of RCILTS-Telugu, TDIL.

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Acknowledgments

The work on Telugu WordNet activity is a part of the larger effort on building a Dravidian WordNet and the work has been sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India (during the I Phase) and DeitY, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India (II Phase).

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  1. Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, Telangana, India

    S. Arulmozi

  2. Dravidian University, Kuppam, India

    M. C. Kesava Murty

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  1. Indian Statistical Institute, Linguistic Research Unit, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Niladri Sekhar Dash

  2. Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Department of Computer Science and Engg., Mumbai, India

    Pushpak Bhattacharyya

  3. Goa University, Department of Computer Science and Techn, Goa, Goa, India

    Jyoti D. Pawar

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Arulmozi, S., Kesava Murty, M.C. (2017). Building Telugu WordNet Using Expansion Approach. In: Dash, N., Bhattacharyya, P., Pawar, J. (eds) The WordNet in Indian Languages. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1909-8_11

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