Key Issues in Vowel Based Splitting of Telugu Bigrams

Abstract

Abstract-Splitting of compound Telugu words into its components or root words is one of the important, tedious and yet inaccurate tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Except in few special cases, at least one vowel is necessarily involved in Telugu conjunctions. In the result, vowels are often repeated as they are or are converted into other vowels or consonants. This paper describes issues involved in vowel based splitting of a Telugu bigram into proper root words using Telugu grammar conjunction ('sandhi') rules for MT.