Hindi and English

English and Hindi for GSoC

English–Hindi is sometimes/often discouraged as a GSoC project because:

1. it has been done unsuccessfully at least 3 times already;
2. it's hard;
3. Google already does it well (the GSoC project is "reaching state-of-the-art");
4. ...

Todo list

Main article: /Work plan

• Check that the story is correctly translated from English to Hindi and that there are no missing sentences.
• Fix spelling errors in the story.
• Add other personal pronouns on the model of 'I' -- in both the Hindi dictionary and the bilingual dictionary.
• Come up with short example sentences (they should include a verb) for common postpositions "with the cat" "under the table". etc.
• Every word in the bidix should have a POS tag
• Every noun on the Hindi side should have gender.
• Adjectives in English in the bidix should be marked for 'sint'.
• Check if there are any forms missing from #Verb_conjugation

Disambiguation

^बच्चों/बच्चा<n><m><pl><obl>$ 
^की/का<post><f><sg><nom>/का<post><f><sg><obl>/का<post><f><pl><nom>/का<post><f><pl><obl>$ 
^मॉं/मॉं<n><f><sg><nom>/मॉं<n><f><sg><obl>$ 

Grammar stuff

Postpositional phrase

 NP-obl post

Postposition can be simple or kā + adv/noun.

Genitive phrase

SN-obl kā-$GEN.$NBR.nom SN-$GEN.$NBR.nom

Verb conjugation

Tag	Description
<impf>	Imperfective participle
<perf>	Perfective participle
<inf>	Infinitive
<prs>	Subjunctive
<fut>	Future
<imp>	Imperative
...	...

Transitive

• Imperfective participle: -taa, -tii, -te, -tii
• Perfective participle: -aa, -ii, -e, -iim
• Infinitive: -naa
• Subjunctive: -uum, -e, -e, -em, -o, -em
• Future: subjunctive + -gaa, -ge, -gii, -gii
• Imperative:
• Verbal adverbs: -kar / -0 kar

बोल; बोलना; inf.nom; vblex.tv 
बोल; बोलने; inf.obl; vblex.tv 
बोल; बोलता; impf.m.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलती; impf.f.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलते; impf.m.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलती; impf.f.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोला; perf.m.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोली; perf.f.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोले; perf.m.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोली; perf.f.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलूं; prs.p1.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोले; prs.p2.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोले; prs.p3.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलें; prs.p1.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलो; prs.p2.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलें; prs.p3.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलूंगा; fut.p1.m.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलेगा; fut.p2.m.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलेगा; fut.p3.m.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलेंगे; fut.p1.m.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलोगे; fut.p2.m.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलेंगे; fut.p3.m.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलूंगी; fut.p1.f.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलेगी; fut.p2.f.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलेगी; fut.p3.f.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलेंगी; fut.p1.f.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलोगी; fut.p2.f.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलेंगी; fut.p3.f.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोल; imp.p2.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलो; imp.p2.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलिए; imp.p2.frm.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलकर; gna; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलके; gna; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलनेवाला; agnt.m.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलनेवाली; agnt.f.sg; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलनेवाले; agnt.m.pl; vblex.tv
बोल; बोलनेवाली; agnt.f.pl; vblex.tv

Intransitive

Verb patterns

impf participle + "be" present

• pres

stem + "raha" impf participle + "be" present

• "be" present + ger

perf participle

• past

perf participle + "be" present

• "have" present + pp

perf participle + "be" past

• past
• "have" past + pp

impf participle + "be" past

• past
• "used to" + inf

impf participle + "raha" present + "be" past

• "be" past + ger

future

• "will" present + inf

impf participle + "raha" future

• "will be" + ger

prs

• "may" present + inf

Resources

Grammars

• Modern Hindi Grammar, Omkar N. Koul
• Grammatical & Inflectional Analysis of Hindi and Dogri

Machine Translation

• Hindi to English Machine Translation, Kunal Sachdeva

• A Hybrid Approach For Hindi-English Machine Translation

Morphology

• Morphology: Indian Languages and European Languages (contains morphological information for both English and Hindi)

• Hindi Noun Inflection and Distributed Morphology, Smriti Singh and Vaijayanthi M Sarma

• Hindi Morphological Analyzer and Generator

• Hindi Derivational Morphological Analyzer

Dictionaries

• http://hindi-english.org/

• https://shabdkosh.raftaar.in/Hindi-English-Dictionary

Corpora

• Hindi-English Parallel Corpora
• HindEnCorp – Hindi-English and Hindi-only Corpus for Machine Translation
• The IIT Bombay English-Hindi Parallel Corpus

See also

• Pending tests
• Hindi and Urdu
• Hindi