A Resource-Light Approach to Morpho-Syntactic Tagging
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About the Book
While supervised corpus-based methods are highly accurate for different NLPtasks, including morphological tagging, they are difficult to port to other languages because they require resources that are expensive to create. As a result, many languages have no realistic prospect for morpho-syntactic annotation in the foreseeable future. The method presented in this book aims to overcome this problem by significantly limiting the necessary data and instead extrapolating the relevant information from another, related language. The approach has been tested on Catalan, Portuguese, and Russian. Although these languages are only relatively resource-poor, the same method can be in principle applied to any inflected language, as long as there is an annotated corpus of a related language available. Time needed for adjusting the system to a new language constitutes a fraction of the time needed for systems with extensive, manually created resources: days instead of years. This book touches upon a number of topics: typology, morphology, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, linguistic annotation, computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Researchers and students who are interested in these scientific areas as well as in cross-lingual studies and applications will greatly benefit from this work. Scholars and practitioners in computer science and linguistics are the prospective readers of this book.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9789042027688
EAN: 9789042027688
Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Continuations: English
Dewey: 415
Is LeadingArticle: Y
MediaMail: Y
PrintOnDemand: N
Series Title: Language and Computers 70
Width: 150 mm
ISBN-10: 9042027681
Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
Acedemic Level: English
Book Type: English
Depth: 19
Height: 225 mm
Language: English
No of Pages: 185
Returnable: N
Spine Width: 16 mm