Abstract
The common wisdom about Sanskrit is that it is free word order language. This word order poses challenges such as handling non-projectivity in parsing. The earlier works on the word order of Sanskrit have shown that there are syntactic structures in Sanskrit which cannot be covered under even the non-planarity. In this paper, we study these structures further to investigate if they can fall under well-nestedness or not. A small manually tagged corpus of the verses of Śrīmad-Bhagavad-Gītā was considered for this study. It was noticed that there are as many well-nested trees as there are ill-nested ones. From the linguistic point of view, we could get a list of relations that are involved in the planarity violations. All these relations had one thing in common - that they have unilateral expectancy. It was this loose binding, as against the mutual expectancy with certain other relations, that allowed them to cross the phrasal boundaries.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.icon-main.41
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India
- Editors:
- Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Dipti Misra Sharma, Rajeev Sangal
- Venue:
- ICON
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 308–316
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.icon-main.41
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Sanal Vikram and Amba Kulkarni. 2020. Free Word Order in Sanskrit and Well-nestedness. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 308–316, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
- Cite (Informal):
- Free Word Order in Sanskrit and Well-nestedness (Vikram & Kulkarni, ICON 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/bionlp-24-ingestion/2020.icon-main.41.pdf