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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080422
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Instant Diacritics Restoration System for Sindhi Accent Prediction using N-Gram and Memory-Based Learning Approaches

Author 1: Hidayatullah Shaikh
Author 2: Javed Ahmed Mahar
Author 3: Mumtaz Hussain Mahar

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 8 Issue 4, 2017.

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Abstract: The script of Sindhi Language is highly complex due to many complexities including abundance of homographic words. The interpretation of the text turns so tough due to the possibility of multitudinal meanings associated with a homographic word unless given specific pronunciation with the help of diacritics. Diacritics help the readers to comprehend the text easily. Due to the rapidly developing nature of this era, people don’t bother writing diacritics in routine applications of life. Besides creating difficulties for human reading, the absence of diacritics does also make the text abstruse for machine reading. Relatively alike human, machines may also lead to semantic and syntactic complexities during computational processing of the language. Instant diacritics restoration is an approach emerged from the text prediction systems. This type of diacritics restoration is an unprecedented work in the realm of natural language processing, particularly in Indo-Aryan languages. A proposition for a framework using N-Grams and Memory-Based Learning approach is made in this work. The grab-point of this mechanism is its 99.03% accuracy on the corpus of Sindhi language during the experiments. The comparative edge of instant diacritics restoration is its being source of expedition in the performance of other natural language and speech processing applications. The future development of this approach seems vivid and clear for Sindhi orthography is highly similar to those of Arabic, Urdu, Persian and other languages based on this type of script.

Keywords: Sindhi Language; Instant Diacritics Restoration; Text Prediction; N-Grams; Memory-Based Learning

Hidayatullah Shaikh, Javed Ahmed Mahar and Mumtaz Hussain Mahar, “Instant Diacritics Restoration System for Sindhi Accent Prediction using N-Gram and Memory-Based Learning Approaches” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 8(4), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080422

@article{Shaikh2017,
title = {Instant Diacritics Restoration System for Sindhi Accent Prediction using N-Gram and Memory-Based Learning Approaches},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080422},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080422},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {8},
number = {4},
author = {Hidayatullah Shaikh and Javed Ahmed Mahar and Mumtaz Hussain Mahar}
}



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