Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people who make up the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka. The language belongs to the globe-spanning language tree, Indo-European. However, due to poverty in both linguistic and economic capital, Sinhala, in the perspective of Natural Language Processing tools and research, remains a resource-poor language which has neither the economic drive its cousin English has nor the sheer push of the law of numbers a language such as Chinese has. A number of research groups from Sri Lanka have noticed this dearth and the resultant dire need for proper tools and research for Sinhala natural language processing. However, due to various reasons, these attempts seem to lack coordination and awareness of each other. The objective of this paper is to fill that gap of a comprehensive literature survey of the publicly available Sinhala natural language tools and research so that the researchers working in this field can better utilize contributions of their peers. As such, we shall be uploading this paper to arXiv and perpetually update it periodically to reflect the advances made in the field.
翻译:僧伽罗语是构成斯里兰卡最大族裔群体的僧伽罗人的母语,该语言属于遍及全球的语言树印欧语,然而,由于语言和经济首都的贫困,从自然语言处理工具和研究的角度来看,僧伽罗语仍然是一种资源贫乏的语言,既不是其表弟英语的经济动力,也不是像中文这样的语言对数字法则的纯粹推波助澜。斯里兰卡的一些研究团体注意到这一珍贵之处,因此迫切需要为僧伽罗自然语言处理提供适当的工具和研究。然而,由于各种原因,这些尝试似乎缺乏相互协调和认识。本文件的目的是填补对公开存在的僧伽罗自然语言工具和研究进行全面文献调查的空白,以便从事这一领域工作的研究人员能够更好地利用同龄人的贡献。因此,我们将将这份文件上传到奥地利,并定期更新,以反映实地取得的进展。