Towards cross-lingual application of language-specific PoS tagging schemes

Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Anton Karl Ingason


Abstract
We describe the process of conversion between the PoS tagging schemes of two languages, the Icelandic MIM-GOLD tagging scheme and the Faroese Sosialurin tagging scheme. These tagging schemes are functionally similar but use separate ways to encode fine-grained morphological information on tokenised text. As Faroese and Icelandic are lexically and grammatically similar, having a systematic method to convert between these two tagging schemes would be beneficial in the field of language technology, specifically in research on transfer learning between the two languages. As a product of our work, we present a provisional version of Icelandic corpora, prepared in the Faroese PoS tagging scheme, ready for use in cross-lingual NLP applications.
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2021.nodalida-main.33
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Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
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May 31--2 June
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2021
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Reykjavik, Iceland (Online)
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Simon Dobnik, Lilja Øvrelid
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NoDaLiDa
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Linköping University Electronic Press, Sweden
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321–325
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Hinrik Hafsteinsson and Anton Karl Ingason. 2021. Towards cross-lingual application of language-specific PoS tagging schemes. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), pages 321–325, Reykjavik, Iceland (Online). Linköping University Electronic Press, Sweden.
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