Tagging and Verifying an Amharic News Corpus
Submitted by Guy on Wed, 2012-07-11 07:59
| Title | Tagging and Verifying an Amharic News Corpus |
| Publication Type | Proceedings Article |
| Year of Conference | 2012 |
| Authors | Gambäck, Björn |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the workshop on Language technology for normalisation of less-resourced languages (SALTMIL8/AfLaT2012) |
| Pagination | 79-84 |
| Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
| Conference Location | Istanbul, Turkey |
| ISBN Number | 978-2-9517408-7-7 |
| Abstract | The paper describes work on verifying, correcting and retagging a corpus of Amharic news texts. A total of 8715 Amharic news articles had previously been collected from a web site, and part of the corpus (1065 articles; 210,000 words) then morphologically analysed and manually part-of-speech tagged. The tagged corpus has been used as the basis for testing the application to Amharic of machine learning techniques and tools developed for other languages. This process made it possible to spot several errors and inconsistencies in the corpus which has been iteratively refined, cleaned, normalised, split into folds, and partially re-tagged by both automatic and manual means. |
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