Diachronic Parsing of Pre-Standard Irish

Kevin Scannell


Abstract
Irish underwent a major spelling standardization in the 1940’s and 1950’s, and as a result it can be challenging to apply language technologies designed for the modern language to older, “pre-standard” texts. Lemmatization, tagging, and parsing of these pre-standard texts play an important role in a number of applications, including the lexicographical work on Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, a historical dictionary of Irish covering the period from 1600 to the present. We have two main goals in this paper. First, we introduce a small benchmark corpus containing just over 3800 words, annotated according to the Universal Dependencies guidelines and covering a range of dialects and time periods since 1600. Second, we establish baselines for lemmatization, tagging, and dependency parsing on this corpus by experimenting with a variety of machine learning approaches.
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2022.cltw-1.2
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Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop within LREC2022
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Theodorus Fransen, William Lamb, Delyth Prys
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CLTW
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European Language Resources Association
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7–13
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.cltw-1.2
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Kevin Scannell. 2022. Diachronic Parsing of Pre-Standard Irish. In Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop within LREC2022, pages 7–13, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Diachronic Parsing of Pre-Standard Irish (Scannell, CLTW 2022)
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