Part-of-Speech Annotation of English-Assamese code-mixed texts: Two Approaches

Ritesh Kumar, Manas Jyoti Bora


Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the development of a part-of-speech tagger for English-Assamese code-mixed texts. We provide a comparison of 2 approaches to annotating code-mixed data – a) annotation of the texts from the two languages using monolingual resources from each language and b) annotation of the text through a different resource created specifically for code-mixed data. We present a comparative study of the efforts required in each approach and the final performance of the system. Based on this, we argue that it might be a better approach to develop new technologies using code-mixed data instead of monolingual, ‘clean’ data, especially for those languages where we do not have significant tools and technologies available till now.
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W18-4110
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language Cognition and Computational Models
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta
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LCCM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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94–103
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Ritesh Kumar and Manas Jyoti Bora. 2018. Part-of-Speech Annotation of English-Assamese code-mixed texts: Two Approaches. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language Cognition and Computational Models, pages 94–103, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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