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Implementation of Subject-Predicate Agreement in Hindi and Telugu ...

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<strong>Implementation</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Agreement</strong> <strong>in</strong> Mach<strong>in</strong>e Translation<br />

System<br />

1 F<strong>in</strong>d the Agent/karwa (k1) <strong>in</strong> the sentence <strong>and</strong> pass it’s GNP to the<br />

predicate <strong>in</strong> the sentence.<br />

2 Retrieve the gender <strong>of</strong> the arguments accord<strong>in</strong>g to the Target<br />

Language (<strong>Telugu</strong>).<br />

3 If k1 is a pronoun (subject pronoun) then the gender should be passed<br />

back (reverse passage), i.e. from predicate to its subject followed by<br />

pronoun reconstruction.<br />

4 The gender <strong>of</strong> the nonverbal predicate (adjective <strong>and</strong> noun) should be<br />

passed on to the subject NP.<br />

5 In case the predicate has a copula then pass the gender number <strong>and</strong><br />

person <strong>of</strong> the copula to the preceed<strong>in</strong>g non-verb.<br />

vaha sg,3 acCA m,sg hE m,sg,3 = vAdu maMcivAdu.<br />

G. Uma Maheshwar Rao, Christopher Mala CALTS <strong>Implementation</strong> University<strong>of</strong> <strong>Subject</strong>-<strong>Predicate</strong> Hyderabad guraohyd@gmail.com, <strong>Agreement</strong> <strong>in</strong> H<strong>in</strong>di efthachris@gmail.com December <strong>and</strong> <strong>Telugu</strong>: 10, 2010 A Mach<strong>in</strong>e () 32 Translati / 36

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