Title
Learning from Within? Comparing PoS Tagging Approaches for Historical Text.
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate unsupervised and semi-supervised methods for part-of-speech (PoS) tagging in the context of historical German text. We locate our research in the context of Digital Humanities where the non-canonical nature of text causes issues facing an Natural Language Processing world in which tools are mainly trained on standard data. Data deviating from the norm requires tools adjusted to this data. We explore to which extend the availability of such training material and resources related to it influences the accuracy of PoS tagging. We investigate a variety of algorithms including neural nets, conditional random fields and self-learning techniques in order to find the best-fitted approach to tackle data sparsity. Although methods using resources from related languages outperform weakly supervised methods using just a few training examples, we can still reach a promising accuracy with methods abstaining additional resources.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
LREC 2016 - TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
PoS tagging,historical language,self-taught learning,neural nets,stacking,Digital Humanities,low resource languages
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer science,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sarah Schulz1313.72
Jonas Kuhn2348.90