Morphological Analysis of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Language using Finite State Transducers

TL;DR

This paper develops a finite state morphological analyzer for Bishnupriya Manipuri, an under-resourced Indo-Aryan language, marking the first computational approach for this language.

Contribution

It introduces the first finite state morphological analysis for Bishnupriya Manipuri, filling a gap in computational language resources.

Findings

Finite state morphology successfully applied to Bishnupriya Manipuri

First computational morphological analysis for this language

Provides a foundation for further NLP tools

Abstract

In this work we present a morphological analysis of Bishnupriya Manipuri language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the north eastern India. As of now, there is no computational work available for the language. Finite state morphology is one of the successful approaches applied in a wide variety of languages over the year. Therefore we adapted the finite state approach to analyse morphology of the Bishnupriya Manipuri language.