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While part-of-speech (POS) tagging and dependency parsing are observed to be closely related, existing work on joint modeling with manually crafted feature templates suffers from the feature sparsity and incompleteness problems. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Liner Yang , Meishan Zhang , Yang Liu , Nan Yu , Maosong Sun , Guohong Fu

In this paper, we propose a new approach to construct a system of transformation rules for the Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging task. Our approach is based on an incremental knowledge acquisition method where rules are stored in an exception…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Dat Quoc Nguyen , Dai Quoc Nguyen , Dang Duc Pham , Son Bao Pham

Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is an important component of the NLP pipeline, but many low-resource languages lack labeled data for training. An established method for training a POS tagger in such a scenario is to create a labeled training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ayyoob Imani , Silvia Severini , Masoud Jalili Sabet , François Yvon , Hinrich Schütze

Many words are ambiguous in terms of their part of speech (POS). However, when a word appears in a text, this ambiguity is generally much reduced. Disambiguating POS involves using context to reduce the number of POS associated with words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Eric G. C. Laporte

Ancient Chinese word segmentation (WSG) and part-of-speech tagging (POS) are important to study ancient Chinese, but the amount of ancient Chinese WSG and POS tagging data is still rare. In this paper, we propose a novel augmentation method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shuo Feng , Piji Li

Most work on part-of-speech (POS) tagging is focused on high resource languages, or examines low-resource and active learning settings through simulated studies. We evaluate POS tagging techniques on an actual endangered language, Griko. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Antonis Anastasopoulos , Marika Lekakou , Josep Quer , Eleni Zimianiti , Justin DeBenedetto , David Chiang

In the pre deep learning era, part-of-speech tags have been considered as indispensable ingredients for feature engineering in dependency parsing. But quite a few works focus on joint tagging and parsing models to avoid error propagation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Houquan Zhou , Yu Zhang , Zhenghua Li , Min Zhang

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging plays an important role in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Its applications can be found in many NLP tasks such as named entity recognition, syntactic parsing, dependency parsing and text chunking. In the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Tuan-Phong Nguyen , Quoc-Tuan Truong , Xuan-Nam Nguyen , Anh-Cuong Le

Khmer text is written from left to right with optional space. Space is not served as a word boundary but instead, it is used for readability or other functional purposes. Word segmentation is a prior step for downstream tasks such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Rina Buoy , Nguonly Taing , Sokchea Kor

Probabilistic approaches to part-of-speech tagging rely primarily on whole-word statistics about word/tag combinations as well as contextual information. But experience shows about 4 per cent of tokens encountered in test sets are unknown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Greg Adams , Beth Millar , Eric Neufeld , Tim Philip

- The field of natural language processing (NLP) has dramatically expanded within the last decade. Many human-being applications are conducted daily via NLP tasks, starting from machine translation, speech recognition, text generation and…

Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network (BLSTM-RNN) has been shown to be very effective for tagging sequential data, e.g. speech utterances or handwritten documents. While word embedding has been demoed as a powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Peilu Wang , Yao Qian , Frank K. Soong , Lei He , Hai Zhao

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging remains a foundational component in natural language processing pipelines, particularly critical for historical text analysis at the intersection of computational linguistics and digital humanities. Despite…

Most languages, especially in Africa, have fewer or no established part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpus. However, POS tagged corpus is essential for natural language processing (NLP) to support advanced researches such as machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Onyenwe Ikechukwu E , Onyedinma Ebele G , Aniegwu Godwin E , Ezeani Ignatius M

This paper presents an empirical comparison of two strategies for Vietnamese Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging from unsegmented text: (i) a pipeline strategy where we consider the output of a word segmenter as the input of a POS tagger, and (ii)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Dat Quoc Nguyen , Thanh Vu , Dai Quoc Nguyen , Mark Dras , Mark Johnson

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Necva Bölücü , Burcu Can

Introduction: Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging, the process of classifying words into their respective parts of speech (e.g., verb or noun), is essential in various natural language processing applications. POS tagging is a crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Leyla Rabiei , Farzaneh Rahmani , Mohammad Khansari , Zeinab Rajabi , Moein Salimi

Linguistic Code Switching (CS) is a phenomenon that occurs when multilingual speakers alternate between two or more languages/dialects within a single conversation. Processing CS data is especially challenging in intra-sentential data given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Fahad AlGhamdi , Mona Diab

Singlish, or Colloquial Singapore English, is a language formed from oral and social communication within multicultural Singapore. In this work, we work on a fundamental Natural Language Processing (NLP) task: Parts-Of-Speech (POS) tagging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Luo Qi Chan , Lynnette Hui Xian Ng

This study presents the development of a part-of-speech (POS) tagging model to extract the skeletal structure of sentences using transfer learning with the BERT architecture for token classification. The model, fine-tuned on Russian text,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Grigorii Churakov