Research on Natural Language Processing for Nepali Language began in 2005 with the Bhasa Sanchar project and now it is being actively carried out in universities and research institutes of Nepal and India. I have curated a list of NLP papers for Nepali language published in different journals and categorized them according to different NLP tasks in descending order of published date.

Classification

• Nepali News Classification using Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks (Shahi and Pant, 2018)

• Improving Nepali Document Classification by Neural Network (Kafle et el., 2016)

• Mobile SMS Spam Filtering for Nepali Text Using Naïve Bayesian and Support Vector Machine (Shahi and Yadav, 2014)

• A lexicon pool augmented Naive Bayes Classifier for Nepali Text (Thakur and Singh, 2014)

Clustering

• A Comparative Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimization and K-means Algorithm For Text Clustering Using Nepali Wordnet (Sarkar et al., 2014)

• Semantic Text Clustering Using Enhanced Vector Space Model Using Nepali Language (Chiranjibi Sitaula, 2012)

Morphological Analysis

• Design of a Morph Analyzer for Non-Declinable Adjectives of Nepali Language (Borah et al., 2017)

• Development of a Morph Analyser for Nepali noun token (Chhetri et al., 2015)

• A Computational Analysis of Nepali Morphology: A Model For Natural Language Processing (Balaram Prasain, PhD, 2011)

• A Morphological Analyzer and a Stemmer for Nepali (Bal Krishna Bal)

Named Entity Recognition

• Named Entity Recognition for Nepali Text Using Support Vector Machines (Bam and Shahi, 2014)

• Named Entity Recognition for Nepali language: A Semi Hybrid Approach (Dey et al., 2014)

POS Tagging

• A Deep Learning Approach for Part-of-Speech Tagging in Nepali Language (Prabha et al., 2018)

• ANN Based POS Tagging For Nepali Text (Archit Yajnik, 2018)

• Part of Speech Tagging Using Statistical Approach for Nepali Text (Archit Yajnik, 2017)

• Enhancing the Performance of Part of Speech tagging of Nepali language through Hybrid approach(Sinha et al., 2015)

• Hidden Markov Model based Part of Speech Tagging for Nepali language (Paul et al., 2015)

• Support Vector Machines based Part of Speech Tagging for Nepali Text (Shahi and Dhamala, 2013)

Sentiment Analysis

• Analyzing facts and opinions in Nepali subjective texts (Regmi et al., 2017)

• Classifying sentiments in Nepali subjective texts (Thapa et al., 2016)

• Detecting Sentiment in Nepali texts: A bootstrap approach for Sentiment Analysis of texts in the Nepali language (Gupta et al., 2015)

Stemming

• A new stemmer for Nepali language (Shrestha and Dhakal, 2016)

• An Affix Removal Stemmer for Natural Language Text in Nepali (Paul et al., 2014)

• A Hybrid Algorithm for Stemming of Nepali Text (Chiranjibi Sitaula, 2014)

Translation

• Handling Honorification in Dobhase: Online English-to-Nepali Machine Translation System (Keshari et al., 2007)

• UNL Nepali Deconverter (Keshari et al.)

Other

• Inflection and derivation in Nepali Noun, adjective and adverb 1 Inflection and derivation in Nepali (Dr. Laxmi Prasad Khatiwada, 2013)

• Towards building advanced natural language applications: an overview of the existing primary resources and applications in Nepali (Bal Krishna Bal, 2009)

• Nelralec/Bhasha Sanchar Working Paper 2 Categorisation for automated morphosyntactic analysis of Nepali: introducing the Nelralec Tagset (NT-01) (Hardie et al., 2005)

• Structure of Nepali Grammar (Bal Krishna Bal, 2004)

• Construction and annotation of a corpus of contemporary Nepali (Yadava et al.)

• Report on Nepali Computational Grammar (Rupakheti et al.)

• Nepali Lexicon Development (Bista et al.)

Data

• Nepali Corpus (Urdu-Nepali-English Parallel Corpus)

• POS Tagged Nepali Corpus (Urdu-Nepali-English Parallel Corpus)

** Note: The list is not comprehensive. For any corrections or addition of new papers on Nepali NLP, mail me at ssushil dot awale at gmail dot com.