A Part-of-speech tagger for Irish using Finite-State Morphology and Constraint Grammar Disambiguation
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This paper describes the methodology used to develop a part-of-speech tagger for Irish, which is used to annotate a corpus of 30 million words of text with part-of-speech tags and lemmas. The tagger is evaluated using a manually disambiguated test corpus and it currently achieves 95 % accuracy on unrestricted text. To our knowledge, this is the first part-of-speech tagger for Irish. 1.
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Uí Dhonnchadha and van Genabith (2006) developed a finite-state morphology and constraint grammar disambiguation, together with a part-of-speech tagger for Irish.
“Early foundational work on Irish language NLP laid important groundwork; for example, Uí Dhonnchadha and van Genabith (2006) developed a finite-state morphology and constraint grammar disambiguation, together with a part-of-speech tagger for Irish, one of several “considerable efforts…made over the past decade to develop natural language processing resources” for Irish.”
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- Authors
- Uí Dhonnchadha, E., & Van Genabith, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Published
- 2006-05
- Pages
- 2241-2244
- ISSN
- 2522-2686
- OpenAlex
- W8638706
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2012: 1
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- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) (publishedVersion)
- Language Resources and Evaluation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Keywords
- part-of-speech tagging, Irish language, finite-state morphology, constraint grammar, morphological disambiguation, lemmatization, corpus annotation, low-resource languages
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