A Descriptive Study of Bengali Words, 9781107064249
Hardcover
Unraveling Bengali words: Structure, function, and meaning in context.

A Descriptive Study of Bengali Words

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    372 pages

  • Release Date

    15 January 2015

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Summary

Decoding Bengali: A Deep Dive into Word Structure and Usage

This book presents a detailed exploration of modern Bengali words, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of written texts. Through empirical analysis, the author investigates Bengali words and lexical items, focusing on their orthographic representation to understand their internal structure and functional roles within various textual contexts.

The study establishes a crucial link between a word’s internal composition a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781107064249
ISBN-10:1107064244
Author:Niladri Sekhar Dash
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:372
Release Date:15 January 2015
Weight:740g
Dimensions:237mm x 159mm x 30mm
About The Author

Niladri Sekhar Dash

Niladri Sekhar Dash is an Assistant Professor at the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He developed an electronic dictionary of modern Bengali which contains nearly sixty thousand words with information on orthography, part-of-speech, meaning, synonyms, and usage for each entry word. The dictionary is used to develop an electronic Bengali-English bilingual dictionary and software for automatic correction of spelling errors in Bengali words. Dash’s research interests include language technology, machine translation and natural language processing.

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