Title
TwittIrish: A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Tweets in Modern Irish
Abstract
Modern Irish is a minority language lacking sufficient computational resources for the task of accurate automatic syntactic parsing of user-generated content such as tweets. Although language technology for the Irish language has been developing in recent years, these tools tend to perform poorly on user-generated content. As with other languages, the linguistic style observed in Irish tweets differs, in terms of orthography, lexicon, and syntax, from that of standard texts more commonly used for the development of language models and parsers. We release the first Universal Dependencies treebank of Irish tweets, facilitating natural language processing of user-generated content in Irish. In this paper, we explore the differences between Irish tweets and standard Irish text, and the challenges associated with dependency parsing of Irish tweets. We describe our boot-strapping method of treebank development and report on preliminary parsing experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.473
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 60TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL 2022), VOL 1: (LONG PAPERS)
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lauren Cassidy100.34
Teresa Lynn2185.26
James Barry300.68
jennifer foster445438.25