An open source part-of-speech tagger for Norwegian: Building on existing language resources

Cristina Sánchez Marco


Abstract
This paper presents an open source part-of-speech tagger for the Norwegian language. It describes how an existing language processing library (FreeLing) was used to build a new part-of-speech tagger for this language. This part-of-speech tagger has been built on already available resources, in particular a Norwegian dictionary and gold standard corpus, which were partly customized for the purposes of this paper. The results of a careful evaluation show that this tagger yields an accuracy close to state-of-the-art taggers for other languages.
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L14-1622
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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4111–4117
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/801_Paper.pdf
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Cristina Sánchez Marco. 2014. An open source part-of-speech tagger for Norwegian: Building on existing language resources. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 4111–4117, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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An open source part-of-speech tagger for Norwegian: Building on existing language resources (Marco, LREC 2014)
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