  This thesis has been divided into six chapters namely: Introduction, Karaka
Model and it impacts on Dependency Parsing, LT Resources for Bhojpuri,
English-Bhojpuri SMT System: Experiment, Evaluation of EB-SMT System, and
Conclusion. Chapter one introduces this PhD research by detailing the
motivation of the study, the methodology used for the study and the literature
review of the existing MT related work in Indian Languages. Chapter two talks
of the theoretical background of Karaka and Karaka model. Along with this, it
talks about previous related work. It also discusses the impacts of the Karaka
model in NLP and dependency parsing. It compares Karaka dependency and
Universal Dependency. It also presents a brief idea of the implementation of
these models in the SMT system for English-Bhojpuri language pair.
