Automatic Verb Classifier for Abui (AVC-abz)

Frantisek Kratochvil, George Saad, Jiří Vomlel, Václav Kratochvíl


Abstract
We present an automatic verb classifier system that identifies inflectional classes in Abui (AVC-abz), a Papuan language of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The system combines manually annotated language data (the learning set) with the output of a morphological precision grammar (corpus data). The morphological precision grammar is trained on a fully glossed smaller corpus and applied to a larger corpus. Using the k-means algorithm, the system clusters inflectional classes discovered in the learning set. In the second step, Naive Bayes algorithm assigns the verbs found in the corpus data to the best-fitting cluster. AVC-abz serves to advance and refine the grammatical analysis of Abui as well as to monitor corpus coverage and its gradual improvement.
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2022.eurali-1.7
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Atul Kr. Ojha, Sina Ahmadi, Chao-Hong Liu, John P. McCrae
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EURALI
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European Language Resources Association
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42–50
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Frantisek Kratochvil, George Saad, Jiří Vomlel, and Václav Kratochvíl. 2022. Automatic Verb Classifier for Abui (AVC-abz). In Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 42–50, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Automatic Verb Classifier for Abui (AVC-abz) (Kratochvil et al., EURALI 2022)
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