Challenges in Developing LRs for Non-Scheduled Languages: A Case of Magahi
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Magahi is an Indo-Aryan Language, spoken mainly in the Eastern parts of India. Despite having a significant number of speakers, there has been virtually no language resource (LR) or language technology (LT) developed for the language, mainly because of its status as a non-scheduled language. The present paper describes an attempt to develop an annotated corpus of Magahi. The data is mainly taken from a couple of blogs in Magahi, some collection of stories in Magahi and the recordings of conversation in Magahi and it is annotated at the POS level using BIS tagset.
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