- M. Ganapathiraju, Lori S. Levin. 2006. TelMore: Morphological Generator for Telugu Nouns and Verbs. Abstract: — Telugu is an Indian language spoken by over 50 million people in the country. The language is rich in literature and has been studied by native and foreign linguists significantly, yet it has not benefited significantly from the recent advances in computational approaches for linguistic or statistical processing of natural language texts. However with the recent progress in standardization of machine representation of text, applications like machine translation and information retrieval are beginning to surface, for example with the collaborative efforts under the umbrella of Digital Library of India (DLI). There is a need for a morphological generator for Telugu that forms an integral part of applications like machine translation and universal dictionary. Here we present the development of a tool, called TelMore, that can generate morphological forms of nouns and verbs of Telugu. It has been developed based on the previously established linguistic analyses of Telugu by C.P. Brown and H. Krishnamurthy. The tool is developed in Perl® and is made available with a web interface and in source code for use and further development at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~madhavi/TelMore/.
