Abstract
We describe an architecture for the parallel construction of a tagger lexicon and an annotated reference corpus for the part-of-speech tagging of Nothern Sotho, a Bantu language of South Africa, for which no tagged resources have been available so far. Our tools make use of grammatical properties (morphological and syntactic) of the language. We use symbolic pretagging, followed by stochastic tagging, an architecture which proves useful not only for the bootstrapping of tagging resources, but also for the tagging of any new text. We discuss the tagset design, the tool architecture and the current state of our ongoing effort.- Anthology ID:
- L06-1221
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2006
- Address:
- Genoa, Italy
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
- Venue:
- LREC
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- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/376_pdf.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Ulrich Heid, Elsabé Taljard, and Danie J. Prinsloo. 2006. Grammar-based tools for the creation of tagging resources for an unresourced language: the case of Northern Sotho. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Grammar-based tools for the creation of tagging resources for an unresourced language: the case of Northern Sotho (Heid et al., LREC 2006)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/376_pdf.pdf