A language-independent and fully unsupervised approach to lexicon induction and part-of-speech tagging for closely related languages
International audience In this paper, we describe our generic approach for transferring part-of-speech annotations from a resourced language towards an etymologically closely related non-resourced language, without using any bilingual (i.e., parallel) data. We first induce a translation lexicon from...
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Format: | Conference Object |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Online Access: | https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01022298 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01022298/document https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01022298/file/lrec14cll.pdf |
Summary: | International audience In this paper, we describe our generic approach for transferring part-of-speech annotations from a resourced language towards an etymologically closely related non-resourced language, without using any bilingual (i.e., parallel) data. We first induce a translation lexicon from monolingual corpora, based on cognate detection followed by cross-lingual contextual similarity. Second, POS information is transferred from the resourced language along translation pairs to the non-resourced language and used for tagging the corpus. We evaluate our methods on three language families, consisting of five Romance languages, three Germanic languages and five Slavic languages. We obtain tagging accuracies of up to 91.6%. |
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