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Feature-Rich Part-of-speech Tagging for Morphologically Complex Languages: Application to Bulgarian

Computation and Language 2019-11-27 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We present experiments with part-of-speech tagging for Bulgarian, a Slavic language with rich inflectional and derivational morphology. Unlike most previous work, which has used a small number of grammatical categories, we work with 680 morpho-syntactic tags. We combine a large morphological lexicon with prior linguistic knowledge and guided learning from a POS-annotated corpus, achieving accuracy of 97.98%, which is a significant improvement over the state-of-the-art for Bulgarian.

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@article{arxiv.1911.11503,
  title  = {Feature-Rich Part-of-speech Tagging for Morphologically Complex Languages: Application to Bulgarian},
  author = {Georgi Georgiev and Valentin Zhikov and Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov and Preslav Nakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11503},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

part-of-speech tagging, POS tagging, morpho-syntactic tags, guided learning, Bulgarian, Slavic