Context Free Grammar (CFG) Analysis for simple Kannada sentences

Abstract

When Computational Linguistic is concerns Kannada is lagging far behind compared to Telugu and Tamil. Writing the grammar production for any south Indian language is bit difficult. Because the languages are highly inflected with three gender forms and two number forms. This paper is an effort to write Context Free Grammar for simple Kannada sentences. Kannada Language being one of the major Dravidian languages of India and it has 27th place in most spoken language in the world. But still it does not yet have computerized grammar checking methods for a given Kannada sentence. Thus, this paper highlights the process of generating context free grammar for simple Kannada sentences.