tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Computational Linguistics Research on Philippine Languages"

Allan BORRA Software Technology Department De La Salle University 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines ccsabb@ languages spoken in Southern Philippines. But as of yet, extensive research has already been done on theoretical linguistics and little is known for computational linguistics. In fact, the computational linguistics researches on Philippine languages are mainly focused on There are also notable work done on Ilocano. Kroeger (1993) showed the importance of the grammatical relations in Tagalog, such as subject and object relations, and the insufficiency of a surface phrase structure paradigm to represent these relations. . | Computational Linguistics Research on Philippine Languages Rachel Edita O. ROXAS Software Technology Department De La Salle University 2401 Taft Avenue Manila Philippines ccsror@ Abstract This is a paper that describes computational linguistic activities on Philippines languages. The Philippines is an archipelago with vast numbers of islands and numerous languages. The tasks of understanding representing and implementing these languages require enormous work. An extensive amount of work has been done on understanding at least some of the major Philippine languages but little has been done on the computational aspect. Majority of the latter has been on the purpose of machine translation. 1 Philippine Languages Within the 7 200 islands of the Philippine archipelago there are about one hundred and one 101 languages that are spoken. This is according to the nationwide 1995 census conducted by the National Statistics Office of the Philippine Government NSO 1997 . The languages that are spoken by at least one percent of the total household population include Tagalog Cebuano Ilocano Hiligaynon Bikol Waray Pampanggo or Kapangpangan Boholano Pangasinan or Panggalatok Maranao Maguin-danao and Tausug. Aside from these major languages there are other Philippine dialects which are variants of these major languages. Fortunato 1993 classified these dialects into the top nine major languages as above except for Boholano which is similar to Cebuano . 2 Language Representations Linguistics information on Philippine languages are extensive on the languages mentioned above except for Maranao Maguin-danao and Tausug which are some of the Allan BORRA Software Technology Department De La Salle University 2401 Taft Avenue Manila Philippines ccsabb@ languages spoken in Southern Philippines. But as of yet extensive research has already been done on theoretical linguistics and little is known for computational linguistics. In fact the computational linguistics .