Wilbert Heeringa


2022

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PoS Tagging, Lemmatization and Dependency Parsing of West Frisian
Wilbert Heeringa | Gosse Bouma | Martha Hofman | Jelle Brouwer | Eduard Drenth | Jan Wijffels | Hans Van de Velde
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

We present a lemmatizer/PoS tagger/dependency parser for West Frisian using a corpus of 44,714 words in 3,126 sentences that were annotated according to the guidelines of Universal Dependencies version 2. PoS tags were assigned to words by using a Dutch PoS tagger that was applied to a Dutch word-by-word translation, or to sentences of a Dutch parallel text. Best results were obtained when using word-by-word translations that were created by using the previous version of the Frisian translation program Oersetter. Morphologic and syntactic annotations were generated on the basis of a Dutch word-by-word translation as well. The performance of the lemmatizer/tagger/annotator when it was trained using default parameters was compared to the performance that was obtained when using the parameter values that were used for training the LassySmall UD 2.5 corpus. We study the effects of different hyperparameter settings on the accuracy of the annotation pipeline. The Frisian lemmatizer/PoS tagger/dependency parser is released as a web app and as a web service.

2018

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The Boarnsterhim Corpus: A Bilingual Frisian-Dutch Panel and Trend Study
Marjoleine Sloos | Eduard Drenth | Wilbert Heeringa
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

2007

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The Relative Divergence of Dutch Dialect Pronunciations from their Common Source: An Exploratory Study
Wilbert Heeringa | Brian Joseph
Proceedings of Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology

2006

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Evaluation of String Distance Algorithms for Dialectology
Wilbert Heeringa | Peter Kleiweg | Charlotte Gooskens | John Nerbonne
Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Distances

1999

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Comparison and Classification of Dialects
John Nerbonne | Wilbert Heeringa | Peter Kleiweg
Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1997

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Measuring Dialect Distance Phonetically
John Nerbonne | Wilbert Heeringa
Computational Phonology: Third Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology