Joint PoS Tagging and Stemming for Agglutinative Languages

Autor: Bölücü, Necva, Can, Burcu
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: CICLING 2017
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: The number of word forms in agglutinative languages is theoretically infinite and this variety in word forms introduces sparsity in many natural language processing tasks. Part-of-speech tagging (PoS tagging) is one of these tasks that often suffers from sparsity. In this paper, we present an unsupervised Bayesian model using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) for joint PoS tagging and stemming for agglutinative languages. We use stemming to reduce sparsity in PoS tagging. Two tasks are jointly performed to provide a mutual benefit in both tasks. Our results show that joint POS tagging and stemming improves PoS tagging scores. We present results for Turkish and Finnish as agglutinative languages and English as a morphologically poor language.
Comment: 12 pages with 3 figures, accepted and presented at the CICLING 2017 - 18th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
Databáze: arXiv