Simplification of Punjabi Sentences: Converting Complex Participial Sentences into Simple Sentences

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: In this world of internet and artificial intelligence, Natural Language Processing has emerged as mostdemanding research area. Under Natural Language Processing, sentence simplification is one of the research area thatdeals with simplification or conversion of complex sentences in to simple sentences. OBJECTIVES: In this researcharticle, author has proposed a novel approach for conversion (simplification) of complex sentences (participial type) ofPunjabi language into easily understandable simple sentences. METHODS: Author performed lexical and morphologicalsimplification by using morphological features of the language. Morphological features are used to identify the participialtype complex sentences. RESULTS: on testing the proposed algorithm, a precision of 96.39%, recall of 91.37% and Fmeasure as 93.79% was reported. CONCLUSION: the developed system can be helpful for Aphasic and Dyslexia readersand can be used as subpart for machine translation system, summarization system and other Natural Language Processingapplications.

Keywords

• paraphrasing
• sentence simplification
• participial sentences
• punjabi language
• complex sentences