A Universal Part-of-Speech Tagset

Slav Petrov, Dipanjan Das, Ryan McDonald


Abstract
To facilitate future research in unsupervised induction of syntactic structure and to standardize best-practices, we propose a tagset that consists of twelve universal part-of-speech categories. In addition to the tagset, we develop a mapping from 25 different treebank tagsets to this universal set. As a result, when combined with the original treebank data, this universal tagset and mapping produce a dataset consisting of common parts-of-speech for 22 different languages. We highlight the use of this resource via three experiments, that (1) compare tagging accuracies across languages, (2) present an unsupervised grammar induction approach that does not use gold standard part-of-speech tags, and (3) use the universal tags to transfer dependency parsers between languages, achieving state-of-the-art results.
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L12-1115
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2089–2096
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/274_Paper.pdf
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Slav Petrov, Dipanjan Das, and Ryan McDonald. 2012. A Universal Part-of-Speech Tagset. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2089–2096, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A Universal Part-of-Speech Tagset (Petrov et al., LREC 2012)
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