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Word classes in Indonesian: A linguistic reality or a convenient fallacy in natural language processing?

Year: 2011

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper looks at Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), and the claim that there is no noun-verb distinction within the language as it is spoken in regions such as Riau and Jakarta.We test this claim for the language as it is written by a variety of Indonesian speakers using empirical methods traditionally used in part-of-speech induction.In this study we use only morphological patterns that we generate from a pre-existing morphological analyser.We find that once the distribution of the data points in our experiments match the distribution of the text from which we gather our data, we obtain significant results that show a distinction between the class of nouns and the class of verbs in Indonesian.Furthermore it shows promise that the labelling of word classes may be achieved only with morphological features, which could be applied to out-of-vocabulary items.

Source: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)

Authors: Meladel Mistica, Timothy Baldwin, I Wayan Arka

Institutions: Udayana University, The University of Melbourne, Australian National University

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Lee Foundation, Nanyang Technological University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Services Fédéraux des Affaires Scientifiques, Techniques et Culturelles, Institute for Infocomm Research

OpenAlex ID: W2251496372

FWCI: 0.264

Cites: 21

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10