Vishal Vachhani CFILT and DIL, IIT Bombay CS 671 ICT For Development 19 th Sep 2008

Agro Explorer A Meaning Based Multilingual Search Engine Vishal Vachhani2

 Web-site for Indian farmers  Farmers can submit their problems related to their crops  Queries are answered by Agricultural Experts at KVK, Baramati  Languages supported: Marathi, Hindi, English Vishal Vachhani3

Why Need Multilingual Search  Vast Amount of Information available on the Web  Almost 70% of the Information is in English  The Indian rural populace is not English- Literate  “A Big Language Barrier”  Information has to be made available to them in their local languages. Vishal Vachhani4

Why Need Meaning Based Search  Most of the current Search Engines are Keyword Based.  They do not consider the semantics of the query  The result set contains a large number of extraneous documents.  Search based on the Meaning of the query will help narrow down on the desired information quickly. Vishal Vachhani5

6 Query in Hindi English Document System Marathi Document search English Document Result in Hindi

Vishal Vachhani7 Same Keywords Different Semantics Moneylenders Exploit Farmers Farmers Exploit Moneylenders Found 1 ResultFound 0 Result

Provides both  Meaning Based Search  Cross-Lingual Information Access Vishal Vachhani8

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Conclusion Provides two independent features  Multi-Linguality  Meaning Based Search. Because of UNL both multi-lingual and meaning based properties can be incorporated together rather than using separate language translators in search engines. The scheme admits itself to Integration of multiple languages in a seamless, scalable manner. Vishal Vachhani15

Vishal Vachhani16 UNL Universal Networking Language

Vishal Vachhani17 UNL Englis h Frenc h Tam il Marath i Hind i

 Direct translation - translation will be done directly - N*(N-1) translator are needed for N languages translation.  Intermediate Language - intermediate language will be used for language translation - Only 2*N translators are required. Vishal Vachhani18

 UNL is an acronym for “Universal Networking Language”.  UNL is a computer language that enables computers to process information and knowledge across the language barriers.  UNL is a language for representing information and knowledge provided by natural languages  Unlike natural languages, UNL expressions are unambiguous. Vishal Vachhani19

 Although the UNL is a language for computers, it has all the components of a natural language.  It is composed of Universal Words (UWs), Relations, Attributes.  Knowledge :semantic graph ◦ Nodes  concepts ◦ Arcs  relation between concepts Vishal Vachhani20

 A UW represents simple or compound concepts. There are two classes of UWs: ◦ unit concepts ◦ compound structures of binary relations grouped together ( indicated with Compound UW-Ids)  A UW is made up of a character string (an English- language word) followed by a list of constraints. ◦ ::= [ ] ◦ example  state(icl>express)  state(icl>country) Vishal Vachhani21

◦ A relation label is represented as strings of 3 characters or less. ◦ The relations between UWs are binary.  rel (UW1, UW2) ◦ They have different labels according to the different roles they play. ◦ At present, there are 46 relations in UNL ◦ For example, agt (agent), ins (instrument), pur (purpose), etc. Vishal Vachhani22

 Attribute labels express additional information about the Universal Words that appear in a sentence. ◦ They show what is said from the speaker’s point of view; how the speaker views what is said. (time, reference, emphasis, attitude, etc. Vishal Vachhani23

Example: Ram eats rice. {unl} Ram) rice(icl>eatable)) {/unl} Vishal Vachhani24

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Example: The boy who works here went to school. {unl} :01) n)) agt:01(work(icl>do), plc:01(work(icl>do),here) {/unl} Vishal Vachhani26

Vishal Vachhani27 agt plc plt agt go here workschool boy :01

Vishal Vachhani28 Enconvertor Intermediate Language Deconvertor Source language target language

 It’s a Language Independent Generator  It can deconvert UNL expressions into a variety of native languages, using a number of linguistic data such as Word Dictionary, Grammatical Rules of each language.  The DeConverter transforms the sentence represented by a UNL expression into Natural language sentence. Vishal Vachhani29

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Vishal Vachhani31 Dictionary Syntax Planning Rules UNL Parser Case Marking Module Morphology Module Syntax Planning Module Case Marking Rules Morphology Rules UNL Doc Hind iDoc Language dependent Module Language Independent Module

UNL parser module will do following tasks –Check input format of UNL document –Separate attributes form UWs –Separate attributes form dictionary entries –Replace UWs with Hindi root words

 Category of morpho-syntactic properties which distinguish the various relations that a noun phrase may bear to a governing head.  ने, पर, के, से, पे,etc.  A rule base based on : ◦ UNL attributes ◦ lexical attributes from dictionary Vishal Vachhani33

 Case marking is implemented using rules.  We analyze all UNL as well as dictionary attributes and decide next and previous case marker.  Also we use relation with parent to extract the right case mark. Vishal Vachhani34

 agt:null:null:null: ने  Structure ◦ relName : ◦ parent previous case marker: ◦ parent next case marker: ◦ child previous case marker: ◦ child next case marker: ◦ the rest four are in form of ◦ attr'REL'relationname ◦ and attr will be separated by # ◦ also relation name are separated by # Vishal Vachhani35

 What is Morphology ◦ Study of Morphemes ◦ Their formation into words, including inflection, derivation and composition Vishal Vachhani36

 Noun, Verb and Adjective Morphology ◦ Depends on the phonetic properties of the Hindi word  Noun Morphology ◦ Depends on gender, number and vowel ending of the noun  Adjective Morphology ◦ अच्छा लडका, अच्छी लडकी, अच्छे लडके ◦ adjective अच्छ changes, lexical attribute “AdjA”  Verb Morphology ◦ Depends upon tense, gender, number, person etc. Vishal Vachhani37

 Verbs are categorized by ◦ Tense (past,present,future) ◦ Gender(male,female) ◦ Person (1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd ) ◦ Number (sg,pl)  Example ◦ Ladaka khana kha raha hai.  It contains present continuous tense,male, sg, and 3 rd person Vishal Vachhani38

 Arranging word according to the language structure  Rule based module  It is priority based graph traversal Vishal Vachhani39

Algorithm for Syntax Planning: 1) Start traversing the UNL graph from the entry node. 2) If node has no children then add this node to final string. 3) If there is more than one child of one node then sort children based on the priority of the relations. Relation having highest priority will be traversed first. 4) Mark that node as visited node. 5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 until all the children of that node get visited. 6) If all the children of that node get visited then add that node to final string. 7) Repeat steps 2 to 4 until all the nodes get traversed. Vishal Vachhani40

 Also, spray 5% Neemark solution. Vishal Vachhani 41 man qua mod obj spray also solution Neemarkpercent 5 obj:17 man:9 mod:5 qua:5 U-3

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Vishal Vachhani51 spray Entry obj:17man:9 solution mod:5 percent qua:5 5 Output : 5

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Vishal Vachhani53 spray Entry obj:17man:9 solution mod:5 percent qua:5 5 Neemark Output : 5 percent Neemark

Vishal Vachhani54 spray Entry obj:17man:9 solution mod:5 percent qua:5 5 Neemark Output : 5 percent Neemark solution

Vishal Vachhani55 spray Entry obj:17man:9 solution mod:5 percent qua:5 5 Neemark also Output : 5 percent Neemark Solution also

Vishal Vachhani56 spray Entry obj:17man:9 solution mod:5 percent qua:5 5 Neemark also Output : 5 percent Neemark Solution also spray

Output: 5 percent Neemark solution also spray 5 प्रतिशत नीमअर्क घोल भी छिड़क् | 5 प्रतिशत नीमअर्क घोल भी छिड़को | Vishal Vachhani57

Vishal Vachhani58 Input sentence: Its roots are affected by bacterial infection. ModuleOutput UNL parser जड़् प्रभावित जीवाण्विक संक्रमण् Case marking Morphology Syntax Planning जड़् प्रभावित जीवाण्विक संक्रमण् से इसकी जड़ें जीवाण्विक प्रभावित होती हैं संक्रमण से | जीवाण्विक संक्रमण से इसकी जड़ें प्रभावित होती हैं | Output: जीवाण्विक संक्रमण से इसकी जड़ें प्रभावित होती हैं | InputIts roots are affected by bacterial infection.

 UNL 2005 Specifications:  S.Singh, M.Dalal, V.Vachhani, P.Bhattacharrya and O.Damani “Hindi generation from interlingua” MTsummit 2007 (  Mrugank Surve, Sarvjeet Singh, Satish Kagathara, Venkatasivaramasastry K, Sunil Dubey, Gajanan Rane, Jaya Saraswati, Salil Badodekar, Akshay Iyer, Ashish Almeida, Roopali Nikam, Carolina Gallardo Perez, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, AgroExplorer Group: AgroExplorer: a Meaning Based Multilingual Search Engine, International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL), New Delhi, India, Feb  Agro Explorer :  aAQUA : Vishal Vachhani59