A Comparative Study of the Application of Theta Theory in Urdu-Hindi and English
160pp
This book offers a comparative study and assignment of theta roles in Urdu-Hindi and English from the point of view of Chomsky (1981, 1995). It highlights the similarity and difference between the languages with a view to the application of theta roles in the challenging areas of Natural Language Processing such as Semantic Analysis, Semantic Role Labeling, Word-Sense Disambiguation, Anaphora Detection and Sentiment Analysis. This comprehensive book may also be useful in language teaching in so far as the well-formed sentences of English are concerned.
Dr. Shamim Fatma did her M.A. and Ph.D in Linguistics from Aligarh Muslim University. After completing her Ph.D, she worked as a linguist at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, under the Project “English to Indian Languages Machine Translation”. Presently she is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha.