Title
A Memory-Based Lemmatizer for Ancient Greek
Abstract
In this paper we present the lemmatizer that we developed for Ancient Greek: GLEM. As far as we know, GLEM is the first publicly available lemmatizer for Ancient Greek that uses POS information to disambiguate and that also assigns output to unseen words, words that are not yet in the lexicon. As the basis for the lemmatizer we used an existing memory-based learning tool, Frog, that was originally developed for Dutch and that we converted to work for Ancient Greek. As the results of Frog on Ancient Greek were rather modest, we used Frog to create a smarter lemmatizer, GLEM, that uses a lexicon look up in addition to the memory-based tool Frog. We evaluate and compare the performance of GLEM against the Frog lemmatizer and the already existing CLTK lemmatizer and observe that GLEM achieves the highest accuracy of 93% on an unseen test corpus sample. GLEM's look up component overcomes the difficulty of a relative small training set in combination with a morphologically rich language, while the memory-based learning component enables GLEM to handle unknown words.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3078081.3078100
DATeCH
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-5265-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Corien Bary100.34
Peter Berck215931.85
Iris Hendrickx328530.91