A Hmong Corpus with Elaborate Expression Annotations

David R. Mortensen, Xinyu Zhang, Chenxuan Cui, Katherine J. Zhang


Abstract
This paper describes the first publicly available corpus of Hmong, a minority language of China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and various countries in Europe and the Americas. The corpus has been scraped from a long-running Usenet newsgroup called soc.culture.hmong and consists of approximately 12 million tokens. This corpus (called SCH) is also the first substantial corpus to be annotated for elaborate expressions, a kind of four-part coordinate construction that is common and important in the languages of mainland Southeast Asia. We show that word embeddings trained on SCH can benefit tasks in Hmong (solving analogies) and that a model trained on it can label previously unseen elaborate expressions, in context, with an F1 of 90.79 (precision: 87.36, recall: 94.52). [ISO 639-3: mww, hmj]
Anthology ID:
2022.lrec-1.533
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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4992–5000
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.533
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David R. Mortensen, Xinyu Zhang, Chenxuan Cui, and Katherine J. Zhang. 2022. A Hmong Corpus with Elaborate Expression Annotations. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4992–5000, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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A Hmong Corpus with Elaborate Expression Annotations (Mortensen et al., LREC 2022)
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Universal Dependencies