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We examine the formation of multi-word expressions (MWE) and reduplicated words in the Mizo language, basing on a news corpus (reduplication is a repetition of a linguistic unit, such as morpheme, affix, word, or clause). To study the structure of reduplication, we follow lexical and morphological approaches, which have been used for the study of other Indian languages, such as Manipuri, Bengali, Odia, Marathi etc. We also show the effect of these phenomena on natural language processing tasks for the Mizo language. To develop an algorithm for identification of reduplicated words in the Mizo language, we manually identified MWEs and reduplicated words and then studied their structural and semantic properties. The results were verified by linguists, experts in the Mizo language.
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This work presented here under the research project Grant No. YSS/2015/000988 and supported by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India at NIT Mizoram. We would like to acknowledge National Institute of Technology Mizoram for providing the research environment and sponsorship to carry out this work. Also, we are thankful to Mr. Jereemi Bentham and Mr. Sunday Lalbiknia, students of CSE dept. of NIT Mizoram for their help.
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Majumder, G., Pakray, P., Khiangte, Z., Gelbukh, A. (2018). Multiword Expressions (MWE) for Mizo Language: Literature Survey. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9623. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75477-2_45
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