A 500 Million Word POS-Tagged Icelandic Corpus

Thomas Eckart, Erla Hallsteinsdóttir, Sigrún Helgadóttir, Uwe Quasthoff, Dirk Goldhahn


Abstract
The new POS-tagged Icelandic corpus of the Leipzig Corpora Collection is an extensive resource for the analysis of the Icelandic language. As it contains a large share of all Web documents hosted under the .is top-level domain, it is especially valuable for investigations on modern Icelandic and non-standard language varieties. The corpus is accessible via a dedicated web portal and large shares are available for download. Focus of this paper will be the description of the tagging process and evaluation of statistical properties like word form frequencies and part of speech tag distributions. The latter will be in particular compared with values from the Icelandic Frequency Dictionary (IFD) Corpus.
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L14-1659
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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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2398–2402
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/852_Paper.pdf
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Thomas Eckart, Erla Hallsteinsdóttir, Sigrún Helgadóttir, Uwe Quasthoff, and Dirk Goldhahn. 2014. A 500 Million Word POS-Tagged Icelandic Corpus. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2398–2402, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A 500 Million Word POS-Tagged Icelandic Corpus (Eckart et al., LREC 2014)
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