Parts of Speech Tagging for Kannada

Swaroop L R, Rakshith Gowda G S, Sourabh U, Shriram Hegde


Abstract
Parts of speech (POS) tagging is the process of assigning the part of speech tag to each and every word in a sentence. In this paper, we have presented POS tagger for Kannada, a low resource south Asian language, using Condition Random Fields. POS tagger developed in the work uses novel features native to Kannada language. The novel features include Sandhi splitting, where a compound word is broken down into two or more meaningful constituent words. The proposed model is trained and tested on the tagged dataset which contains 21 thousand sentences and achieves a highest accuracy of 94.56%.
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R19-2005
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Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2019
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September
Year:
2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Venelin Kovatchev, Irina Temnikova, Branislava Šandrih, Ivelina Nikolova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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Pages:
28–31
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https://aclanthology.org/R19-2005
DOI:
10.26615/issn.2603-2821.2019_005
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Swaroop L R, Rakshith Gowda G S, Sourabh U, and Shriram Hegde. 2019. Parts of Speech Tagging for Kannada. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2019, pages 28–31, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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Parts of Speech Tagging for Kannada (L R et al., RANLP 2019)
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