Professional Documents
Culture Documents
By
Budditha Hettige
Department of Statistics and Computer Science,
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
&
Asoka S. Karunanada
Faculty of Information Technology,
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
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Overview
• Introduction
• Machine Translation
• Sinhala Language
• Computational Model of Grammar for Sinhala
Language
• Design & Implementation
• Evaluation
• Conclusion & further works
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Sinhala Language
• Sinhala language has its own writing system, which is
an offspring of the Brahmi script
• Sinhala alphabet consists of 61 letters comprising 18
vowels, 41 consonants and 2 semi-consonants
• Part of speech
– Noun
– Verb
– Indeclinable particles (නිපාත, උපසර්ග)
Sinhala Morphological
Generator
• works through the concepts
of Varanegeema
• Implemented through SWI-
Prolog