A Tagged Corpus and a Tagger for Urdu

Bushra Jawaid, Amir Kamran, Ondřej Bojar


Abstract
In this paper, we describe a release of a sizeable monolingual Urdu corpus automatically tagged with part-of-speech tags. We extend the work of Jawaid and Bojar (2012) who use three different taggers and then apply a voting scheme to disambiguate among the different choices suggested by each tagger. We run this complex ensemble on a large monolingual corpus and release the tagged corpus. Additionally, we use this data to train a single standalone tagger which will hopefully significantly simplify Urdu processing. The standalone tagger obtains the accuracy of 88.74% on test data.
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L14-1449
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2938–2943
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/544_Paper.pdf
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Bushra Jawaid, Amir Kamran, and Ondřej Bojar. 2014. A Tagged Corpus and a Tagger for Urdu. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2938–2943, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A Tagged Corpus and a Tagger for Urdu (Jawaid et al., LREC 2014)
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