Irish Treebanking and Parsing: A Preliminary Evaluation
Teresa Lynn, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Jennifer Foster, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Mark Dras, Josef van Genabith
Abstract
Language resources are essential for linguistic research and the development of NLP applications. Low-density languages, such as Irish, therefore lack significant research in this area. This paper describes the early stages in the development of new language resources for Irish ― namely the first Irish dependency treebank and the first Irish statistical dependency parser. We present the methodology behind building our new treebank and the steps we take to leverage upon the few existing resources. We discuss language-specific choices made when defining our dependency labelling scheme, and describe interesting Irish language characteristics such as prepositional attachment, copula, and clefting. We manually develop a small treebank of 300 sentences based on an existing POS-tagged corpus and report an inter-annotator agreement of 0.7902. We train MaltParser to achieve preliminary parsing results for Irish and describe a bootstrapping approach for further stages of development.- Anthology ID:
- L12-1189
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2012
- Address:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1939–1946
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/378_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Teresa Lynn, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Jennifer Foster, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Mark Dras, and Josef van Genabith. 2012. Irish Treebanking and Parsing: A Preliminary Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1939–1946, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Irish Treebanking and Parsing: A Preliminary Evaluation (Lynn et al., LREC 2012)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/378_Paper.pdf