Icelandic Data Driven Part of Speech Tagging

Data driven POS tagging has achieved good performance for English, but can still lag behind linguistic rule based taggers for morphologically complex languages, such as Icelandic. We extend a statistical tagger to handle fine grained tagsets and improve over the best Icelandic POS tagger. Additionally, we develop a case tagger for non-local case and gender decisions. An error analysis of our system suggests future directions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Mark Dredze, Joel Wallenberg
• Keywords: ACL 2008, Computational Linguistics, Data Driven Pos, Icelandic POS Tagger, Statistical Tagger