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Suvendu Samanta

2 accepted papers

2022

A Novel Multi-Task Learning Approach for Context-Sensitive Compound Type Identification in Sanskrit

COLING 2022main

The phenomenon of compounding is ubiquitous in Sanskrit. It serves for achieving brevity in expressing thoughts, while simultaneously enriching the lexical and structural formation of the language. In this work, we focus on the Sanskrit Compound Type Identification (SaCTI) task, where we consider th…

2022

TransLIST: A Transformer-Based Linguistically Informed Sanskrit Tokenizer

EMNLP 2022finding

Sanskrit Word Segmentation (SWS) is essential in making digitized texts available and in deploying downstream tasks. It is, however, non-trivial because of the sandhi phenomenon that modifies the characters at the word boundaries, and needs special treatment. Existing lexicon driven approaches for S…