Improving Existing Punjabi Morphological Analyzer

Morphological analysis is essential for natural language processes like generation of Treebanks, training of parsing models and parsing. Rule based approach is applicable to the languages which have well defined set of rules to accommodate most of the words with inflectional and derivational morphology. Rule based morphological analysis is very difficult and cannot accommodate all combinations through the rules due to inflections and exceptions especially in languages like Punjabi. Statistical methods are very important which in turn need large volume of electronic corpus and automated tools which are not available in Punjabi. Lexicon based morphological analyzer has been developed for Punjabi. This can be further improved by adding new words with their grammatical information.