Analysis of polysemy words in Kannada sentences based on parts of speech

Abstract

Polysemy word is a word which has multiple meanings. The same word can be used in different context to mean different things. Consider a paragraph of Kannada sentences, a person with no prior Kannada language knowledge cannot distinguish the difference in the meaning of a polysemy word. She/he might think the same meaning for all the occurrence of the word in the whole paragraph which is incorrect. The application has polysemy words in the database, which can be appended. The application aims at creating a Kannada polysemy word analyzer to solve the ambiguity. It allows the user to select a Kannada sentence from a list provided. It uses the Shallow parser, which gives the parts of speech information of each word in a sentence. Different meanings of a polysemy word are stored in a database. When the correct match is found between the shallow parser results and the database the exact meaning of the polysemy word used in the sentence is highlighted.