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Building Part-of-Speech (POS) taggers for code-mixed Indian languages is a particularly challenging problem in computational linguistics due to a dearth of accurately annotated training corpora. ICON, as part of its NLP tools contest has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Sree Harsha Ramesh , Raveena R Kumar

Sequence labelling is the task of assigning categorical labels to a data sequence. In Natural Language Processing, sequence labelling can be applied to various fundamental problems, such as Part of Speech (POS) tagging, Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Mahtab Ahmed , Muhammad Rifayat Samee , Robert E. Mercer

Historical languages present unique challenges to the NLP community, with one prominent hurdle being the limited resources available in their closed corpora. This work describes our submission to the constrained subtask of the SIGTYP 2024…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Frederick Riemenschneider , Kevin Krahn

Tasks that require character-level reasoning, such as counting or locating characters within words, remain challenging for contemporary language models. A common conjecture is that language models' reliance on subword units, rather than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Omri Uzan , Yuval Pinter

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging for Medieval Romance languages remains challenging due to orthographic variation, morphological complexity, and limited annotated resources. This paper presents a systematic empirical evaluation of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Matthias Schöffel , Esteban Garces Arias

Sequence labeling (SL) is a fundamental research problem encompassing a variety of tasks, e.g., part-of-speech (POS) tagging, named entity recognition (NER), text chunking, etc. Though prevalent and effective in many downstream applications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Zhiyong He , Zanbo Wang , Wei Wei , Shanshan Feng , Xianling Mao , Sheng Jiang

We take a practical approach to solving sequence labeling problem assuming unavailability of domain expertise and scarcity of informational and computational resources. To this end, we utilize a universal end-to-end Bi-LSTM-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Adnan Akhundov , Dietrich Trautmann , Georg Groh

Part of speech (POS) tagging is a familiar NLP task. State of the art taggers routinely achieve token-level accuracies of over 97% on news body text, evidence that the problem is well understood. However, the register of English news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Adrian Benton , Hanyang Li , Igor Malioutov

Improvement in machine learning-based NLP performance are often presented with bigger models and more complex code. This presents a trade-off: better scores come at the cost of larger tools; bigger models tend to require more during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Magnus Jacobsen , Mikkel H. Sørensen , Leon Derczynski

Punctuation restoration is an important post-processing step in automatic speech recognition. Among other kinds of external information, part-of-speech (POS) taggers provide informative tags, suggesting each input token's syntactic role,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Ning Shi , Wei Wang , Boxin Wang , Jinfeng Li , Xiangyu Liu , Zhouhan Lin

Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is an old and fundamental task in natural language processing. While supervised POS taggers have shown promising accuracy, it is not always feasible to use supervised methods due to lack of labeled data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Omid Kashefi

- 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…

Part of Speech (POS) tagging is crucial to Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is a well-studied topic in several resource-rich languages. However, the development of computational linguistic resources is still in its infancy despite the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Dhrubajyoti Pathak , Sukumar Nandi , Priyankoo Sarmah

Neural morphological tagging has been regarded as an extension to POS tagging task, treating each morphological tag as a monolithic label and ignoring its internal structure. We propose to view morphological tags as composite labels and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Alexander Tkachenko , Kairit Sirts

Part of Speech (POS) is a very vital topic in Natural Language Processing (NLP) task in any language, which involves analysing the construction of the language, behaviours and the dynamics of the language, the knowledge that could be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-01-07 A. J. P. M. P. Jayaweera , N. G. J. Dias

Multilingual language models have recently gained attention as a promising solution for representing multiple languages in a single model. In this paper, we propose new criteria to evaluate the quality of lexical representation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Tomasz Limisiewicz , Jiří Balhar , David Mareček

Cross-lingual transfer learning is an invaluable tool for overcoming data scarcity, yet selecting a suitable transfer language remains a challenge. The precise roles of linguistic typology, training data, and model architecture in transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Enora Rice , Ali Marashian , Hannah Haynie , Katharina von der Wense , Alexis Palmer

A new language model for speech recognition is presented. The model develops hidden hierarchical syntactic-like structure incrementally and uses it to extract meaningful information from the word history, thus complementing the locality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ciprian Chelba , Frederick Jelinek

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

The Transformer architecture is superior to RNN-based models in computational efficiency. Recently, GPT and BERT demonstrate the efficacy of Transformer models on various NLP tasks using pre-trained language models on large-scale corpora.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Chenguang Wang , Mu Li , Alexander J. Smola