Bengali and English/Anubadok

Anubadok is an open source English to Bengali MT system developed by G M Hossain, currently in experimental stage.

The program is licensed under GPL. Its accessible from here.

Inflection Rules (BnSondhi.pm)

Legend

• C Consonant
• V Vowel
• _ Any Letter
• K Kar (Short form of Vowel)
• G General Rule - The consonants and vowels in the example are exchangeable with any other consonants and vowels
• S Special Rule - The consonants and vowels in the example are NOT exchangeable with any other consonants and vowels

__CC will mean the last two consonants of a word, and CV__ means the first letter of this word is consonant followed by a vowel

Rules

Verb Rules

• G (C+ো+C)+(তে) = (C+ু+C+তে) eg খোল + তে = খুলতে

• G (া+C+া) + (তে) = (া+C+া+তে) eg পাঠা + তে = পাঠাতে

• G নি + ের = নেওয়ার
• G নে + ার = নেওয়ার
• G পা + তে = পেতে
• G দে + তে = দিতে
• G কর + ের = করার
• G __K1 + K2__ = __K1__

Preposition Rules

• S লেখ -> লিখ
• S এই + টি = এটি
• S __কে + এর = __ার

Tag Set

Anubadok uses Penn Treebank Tag Set, the tag set is as follows:

1. CC Coordinating conjunction
2. CD Cardinal number
3. DT Determiner
4. EX Existential there
5. FW Foreign word
6. IN Preposition or subordinating conjunction
7. JJ Adjective
8. JJR Adjective, comparative
9. JJS Adjective, superlative
10. LS List item marker
11. MD Modal
12. NN Noun, singular or mass
13. NNS Noun, plural
14. NP Proper noun, singular
15. NPS Proper noun, plural
16. PDT Predeterminer
17. POS Possessive ending
18. PP Personal pronoun
19. PP$ Possessive pronoun
20. RB Adverb
21. RBR Adverb, comparative
22. RBS Adverb, superlative
23. RP Particle
24. SYM Symbol
25. TO to
26. UH Interjection
27. VB Verb, base form
28. VBD Verb, past tense
29. VBG Verb, gerund or present participle
30. VBN Verb, past participle
31. VBP Verb, non-3rd person singular present
32. VBZ Verb, 3rd person singular present
33. WDT Wh-determiner
34. WP Wh-pronoun
35. WP$ Possessive wh-pronoun
36. WRB Wh-adverb